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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 then welcoming a series of domestic and foreign wars. The TaipingCinemaCinemaCity Movement has not yet subsided, and the Second Opium War broke out again, and the British and French coalition forces fought all the way from southern China to Beijing.
Modern China has been repeatedly invaded by foreign enemies. Data picture
Faced with internal and external difficulties and national danger, China is exploring the way to survive. Western forces opened the door to China with strong ships and powerful cannons, making the “Boss Empire” realize that he was really behind. Therefore, Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan and other pioneers who “opened their eyes to the world” gradually gained more recognition, and the call for learning from the West gradually became a social trend.
Learning from the West is the path of modernization in China. However, what to learn and how to learn test the ruling people at that time.
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In this great change, there are two key figures who are most capable of determining the course of the ship in the Qing Dynasty: one is Empress Dowager Cixi. In 1908, Komiks began to rule the country behind the curtain until her death in 1908.Babaylan href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema
The other is Li Hongzhang, a “maintained official of Zhongxing”. CinemaHe rose step by step in the war to wipe out the Taiping and Nian armies 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 Hirobuki Ito as “the only person in the Qing Empire who can compete with the world’s powers”, and Empress Dowager Cixi also regarded him as “again href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe Man Who Makes Mysterious Yellow”.
Li Hongzhang, an important official in the late Qing Dynasty, was a member of Li Hongzhang, a senior official of the late Qing Dynasty. Data picture
What to learn from the West? In the repeated failures of foreign wars, leaders of the Westernization faction such as Li Hongzhang and other Westernization faction have dreams of enriching the country and strengthening the army. Therefore, they proposed to “learning the barbarians’ skills to control the barbarians” and learn from the technical level.
With his efforts, the Westernization Movement was vigorously carried out, and a large number of military and civil industries such as ordnance, shipbuilding, railways, mining, textiles, and telegraphs were quickly created, and a large number of military and civil industries such as military and civilian industries were adopted, and the “official supervision and business” method was adopted to attract private capital to run industries.
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Note that the Westernization Movement has achieved great results. With the help of latecomer advantageCinema, China has achieved tremendous development in economy, science and technology, concepts and other aspects in a short period of time, quickly laying a certain industrial foundation for traditional agricultural countries and profoundly changing 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 ZTE”. Undoubtedly, Li Hongzhang is a “minister of Zhongxing”. The whole country is complacent about the achievements of the Westernization Movement and believes that learning from the West has achieved great success.
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The Westernization Movement, a path to enrich the country and strengthen the army, had 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 and are only willing to learn to decorate the storefront, and do not touch on fundamental issues such as the system.
Studying Komiks two years later than the Qing government is a good reference system. Also learning from the West, Japan carried out the Meiji Restoration, and comprehensively learned from economy, military to politics, education, etc., and carried out relatively thorough social improvements to Japan.
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 soon restricted by the corrupt political system.
The painful lesson came again. After Japan’s rise, it launched the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. The Beiyang Navy, known as Asia’s number one, was wiped out, which also declared the bankruptcy of the Westernization Movement. From then on, Chinese society fell into deeper darkness.ref=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaDark.
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In modern Chinese history, the second half of the 19th century was an excellent development opportunity, so why didn’t I grasp it better? Although this is restricted and hindered by conservative forces, Li Hongzhang, who are knowledgeable and strive to guide China’s progress, have not fought for more important and more critical reforms, and obviously they cannot shirk responsibility. Looking back at history based on the present, the twists and limitations in the exploration of the path of Komiks in modern China are sad.
The eraBabaylan has limitations, and individuals have limitations. The late Qing Empire was in trouble at home and invasive, and Li Hongzhang alone sustained the crisis and exhausted his efforts, and he also completed the Komiks mission. But he did not seize this good opportunity to accelerate modernization and failed to complete the modernization process through peaceful improvement. Finally, he was regretful.
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And with 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 midst of war.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News·Editor of Yangcheng School | Xia Yang