Modern Times: A Brief History of Enlightenment from the Golden Era of

from the Golden Era of the T'ang Dynasty to the present day

or ''Beijing Spring”

While he was banished to the countryside

These pages tell us much about how ordinary people found pain and pleasure in the Hong Kong of recent decades

Modern Times: A Brief History of Enlightenment from the Golden Era ofBy Li Boyuan Translated by Douglas Lancashire 1996 522 pages ISBN 962 7255 16 5 Li Boyuan's (1867 1906) observations on late Nineteenth Century China strike late Twentieth Century readers with remarkable freshness. The second half of the Nineteenth Century saw the emergence of a new consciousness in Chinese society. Questions concerning China's position in the world and her relationship with Western powers were the subject of nationwide discussion.