Abstract
Research on the acceptance of “Sunday” in modern China has been conducted in fields such as literature, history, and sociology. Many of these previous studies, however, were centered on those in Republican period. The probing into this topic in the late Qing Dynasty, especially, is still insufficient. This paper examines the term “Sunday” in the late Qing Dynasty, based on the article in Shen Bao(申報), which is the most influential newspaper in that period, and investigates how the “Sunday” setting influenced the rest systems, entertainment time and crime behaviors.
