This study explores the modernization process of the social network of female newspaper practitioners in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China based on the theory of modernization and social networks. It is used as a window to explore the germination of gender modernization and the macro-narrative of the initial stage of development of "human modernization" of the entire society. This study finds that the construction of female newspaper practitioners’ social network re?ected the characteristics of the modern transformation during the period of social transition in late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, these are the social network from strong relationships to weak relationships and dependent trust to entrusted trust, the emergence of retrenchment circle, and quasi-kinship entering the differential mode of association, and the characteristics of women also applying to social interaction in a timely manner. All of those have become the motivation of the modernization of the female groups. However, in the actual operation, it is still dominated by the mode of interaction of traditional society. It also re?ects that the particularism is the basis and core, the collective orientation is greater than self-orientation, and diffusion is greater than specifcity. However, there are signifcant limitations that the construction of female newspaper practitioners' social network overly depends on the preemptive relationship, and benefts from the particularity of profession and the support of objective factors.