《中国近代社会风俗史》是华中师范大学历史研究所严昌洪先生积10年之苦功,撰写的一部力作,是我国第一部近代社会风俗史专著,已由浙江人民出版社出版。纵观全书既可以明了中国近代社会风俗发展演变的轨迹,又能够把握从1840年鸦片战争以来,到1940年近百年间,在西俗东渐和社会经济政治、文化变革的大潮下,近代社会风俗呈现出的新特点,有助于进一步加强对近代中国国情的认识。该书有以下几个特点:体系独特,脉络清楚。作者认为社会风俗是属于社会意识诸形态中的一种,与道德、艺术、哲学、宗教等一样,具有相对的独立性,有独立的外观和自身的 “History of Modern Chinese Social Customs” is a masterpiece written by Yan Changhong, a historian of the Central China Normal University, who accumulated 10 years of painstaking work and is the first monograph on the customs of modern society in China. It has been published by Zhejiang People’s Publishing House. Throughout the whole book, we can clearly understand the trajectory of the evolution of the social customs in modern China and grasp the changes in modern society since the Opium War of 1840 and the nearly 100 years in 1940, under the tide of Western social progress, socio-economic politics and cultural changes, The new features of the custom are conducive to further strengthening our understanding of the national conditions in modern China. The book has the following characteristics: a unique system, clear context. The author believes that social customs belong to one of various forms of social consciousness, which has the same relative independence as morality, art, philosophy and religion, and has an independent appearance and self