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Text/Yangcheng Evening News reporter Xia Yang
Since the Opium War in 1840, China has gradually become a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and the Chinese nation is facing “great changes unseen in three thousand years.”
Although the signing of the Sino-British Nanjing Treaty was deprived of power and humiliating the country, the contradictions between China and foreign countries reached a temporary balance. At this time, China should have learned from the pain and seized the opportunity to work hard. But Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawThen we ushered in a series of internal and foreign wars. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement had not yet subsided, and the Second Opium War broke out again. The British and French coalition forces fought all the way from southern China to Beijing.
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Faced with the internal and external difficulties and the national danger of death, China is exploring the way to survive. Western forces opened the door to China with strong ships and powerful cannons, making the “Big Empire” realize that they were really behind. Therefore, Lin Zexu’s pioneering ideas of “opening their eyes to the world” such as “Looking at the world” have gradually gained more recognition, and the call for learning from the West has gradually become a social trend.
Learn from the West, this is the Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw China’s modernization. However, what to learn and how to learn tests the ruling people at that time.
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In this major change, there are two key figures who are most capable of determining the course of the ship in the Qing Dynasty. Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw: First, Empress Dowager Cixi began to rule from behind the curtain in 1861 until her death in 1908. For nearly half a century, she was the master of the Qing Dynasty.
The other is Li Hongzhang, a “major official of ZTE”. He rose step by step in the war to wipe out the Taiping Army and the Nian Army in the 1860s, and he held the internal and diplomatic power of the Qing government for a long time until he died of illness in 1901. He was regarded by Japanese Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito as “the only person in the Qing Empire who was capable of competing with the world’s powers” and Empress Dowager Cixi also regarded him as “a person who recreated Xuanhuang.”
Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawLi Hongzhang, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty, Data picture
What to learn from the West? Due to repeated failures in foreign wars, leaders of the Westernization faction such as Li Hongzhang all dream of enriching the country and strengthening the army. Therefore, they proposed to “learn from the barbarians’ skills to control the barbarians” and learn from the technical level. Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw
Under his efforts, the Westernization Movement was vigorously carried out, and a large number of military, shipbuilding, railways were quickly created.Babaylan 1990 clothes drawMinistry, civilian industry, Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw and adopts the “official supervision of business” method to attract private capital to run industries.
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Not disdain, the Westernization Movement has achieved great results in Babaylan 1990 cloth draw. With the help of the latecomer advantage, China has achieved tremendous development in economics, science and technology, and concepts in a short period of time, and has quickly laid the traditional agricultural countryKomiks 1960 witch clothes Draw has a certain industrial foundation and has profoundly changed the lives of the people. In 1888, China’s first modern fleet, the Beiyang Navy, officially formed an army and became the most powerful naval force in Asia. This was the peak period of the Westernization Movement, known in history as “Tongguang Zhongxing”. Undoubtedly, Li Hongzhang was the “minister of Zhongxing”. The whole country was complacent about the achievements of the Westernization MovementCinema 1950 witch cloth draw, believing that learning from the West had been a great success.
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However, it is this superficial effect that covers up the existing problems.
The Westernization Movement, a path to enriching the country and strengthening the army, has great limitations from the beginning. They are positioned as “middle school as the body and Western learning as the purpose”, but they still cannot let go of the superiority of the old empire. The feeling of drawing was that he only wanted to learn to decorate his fur, but did not touch on fundamental issues such as the system. Japan, which started learning the West two years later than the Qing government, was a good reference system. Also learning from the West, Japan carried out the Meiji Restoration, and conducted a comprehensive study from economy, military to politics, education, etc., and carried out a relatively thorough social improvement to Japan.
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So, China and Japan, as “classmates”, gradually widened the gap. Japan quickly completed the process of modernization and rose to become a powerful country in East Asia. The economic and social development momentum of the Qing Dynasty was quickly restricted by a corrupt political system.
The painful lesson came again. After Japan rose, it launched the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and the Beiyang Navy, known as the number one in Asia, was wiped out, which also declared the bankruptcy of the Westernization Movement. From then on, Babaylan 1990 clothes drawChinese society is falling into deeper darkness.
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In modern Chinese history, the second half of the 19th century was an excellent development opportunity, so why could not grasp it better? Although this was restricted and hindered by conservative forces, Li Hongzhang, who were knowledgeable and worked hard to guide China’s progress, did not strive for more important and critical reforms, and obviously also recommendedBabaylan 1990 clothes The responsibility that cannot be removed is responsibilities. Based on the current situation, the struggles and limitations of China’s modernization journey are regrettable.
Based on the present, the times have limitations, and individuals have limitations. The late Qing emperor Cinema 1950 witch clothes drawDomestic and foreign difficulties and holes, Li Hongzhang alone survived the crisis and exhausted his efforts, and he also completed his mission. However, he did not seize this opportunity to accelerate modernization and failed to complete the modernization process through peaceful improvement.
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After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Chinese nation stumbled into the 20th century. In the following half century, the Chinese people set off a wave of reform and revolution, and continued to explore the path of rejuvenation and power in the chaos of war.
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