The book entitled The Officials,Girdles,Businessmen and Scholars in Ch inese modern history,with professor Zhang Kaiyuan as the chief-editor,is chara ct erized by its free from the boundary of western research theory.By selecting sev eral important social groups which took active parts in the history,the book foc uses on analyzing the intersection of the social groups and the mutual influence between them and the social changes in order to have a glimpse of the features of the transform of the society in specific historical periods.This book is a ma sterpiece in terms of its academic value,the...