中华人民共和国成立65年来，中国人民的生活发生了巨大变化，从衣食住行等日常生活的变迁，到政治生活、精神生活、文化生活的丰富，无不折射出社会的进步。陈煜编著的《中国百姓生活记忆(英文版)》展示不同年代中国人生活的不同面貌，以此反映时代的变迁和社会的进步，增加人们对当代中国社会的了解。

《中国百姓生活记忆(英文版)》由陈煜编著。

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Chinese people have experienced significant changes in life. The improvements in basic necessities of daily life and the enrichment of political, spiritual and cultural life reflect the social progress. This book aims to reflect such progress in dribs and drabs. It will help the readers to learn more about the contemporary Chinese society.

1949

 Many things needed to be done

1950s

 Chinese tunic suit replaced the westem-style clothes and chi-pao

 Fashionable "Lenin Coat"

 Girls keen on bib overall

 Little swallow wearing color clothes: "platye"

 Food coupon starts the coupon era

 Residence booklet to control influxes into the urban area

 Free public eateries

 Dusky and greasy "row houses"

 Water supply station in Shanghai lanes

 Walking-based transportation

 "Dangdang Bus" reminds pedestrians to keep away from cars with bells

 Cartoon dance needs a "big brother"

 A divorce is hereby granted as mediation failed

 Rural women have a bath in the bathhouse for the first time

 Transferring Shanghai haircutters to open Silian in Beijing

 National steelmaking movement

 Wronged sparrow

 Women were bashful when doing radio calisthenics

 Merit students

 The first national salary reform

1960s

 The food substitute movement: Man-made meat essence and

 appeasing hunger with chlorella

 Lying-in women provided with a lump sum subsidy of 1 kg of eggs

 Quota supply of vegetable, shallot, ginger and garlic

 Umbrella and alarm clocks were also supplied with coupon

 "Three years in new, three years in old and three years in patched"

 No white buttons for white suit in Beijing

 Red Guard hairstyle

 State Council cuts sales of lipstick in China

 Renovating Fangua Lane

 Nine-storey Anhua Building nicknamed "high-ranking official building"

 From honeycomb briquette to gas tank

 ……

1970s

1980s

1990s

21st Century