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Text/Yangcheng Evening NewsKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawReporter Xia Yang
From the Opium War in 1840, China has gradually become a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and ChinaKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawChina<a The Babaylan 1990 cloth draw tribes face the "three major changes that have not been seen in a 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 what we came next was a series of internal and foreign wars. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement had 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.
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Faced with internal and external difficulties and national danger, ChinaBabaylan 1990 cloth drawEveryone and the whole country are exploring the way to survive the reform plan. Western forces use Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw strong ships and powerful guns to open the door of China, making the “Big Empire” realize Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawI am really behind, so the pioneering ideas of “opening my eyes to the world” such as Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan have gradually gained more recognition, and the call for learning from the West has gradually become a social trend. Learning from the West is the path of modern China’s Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw. 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 direction of the ship in the Qing Dynasty: First, Empress Dowager Cixi began to rule 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 between the Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw and the Nian Army in the 1860s, and he mastered 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.”
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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.
With his efforts, the Westernization Movement was vigorously launched and quickly establishedA large number of military and civil industries such as ordnance, shipbuilding, railways, mining, textiles, and telegraphs have adopted the method of “official supervision and business” to attract private capital to run industries.
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Not disdain, the Westernization Movement has achieved great results. With the help of latecomer advantages, 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 people’s lives.
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 ZTECinema 1950 witch cloth draw“. Undoubtedly, Li Hongzhang is a “minister of Zhongxing”. The whole country is complacent about the achievements of the Westernization Movement, believing that learning from the West has achieved great success.
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SecretKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw However, it is this superficial effect that covers up the existing problems.
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.
Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw started learning from the West in Japan two years later than the Qing government, which is a good reference system. Also Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawLearn from the West, Japan carried out the Meiji Restoration, from the economy, military to politics, education, etc., and carried out a more thorough social improvement in Japan.
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So, as a “classmate”, China and Japan gradually widened the gap. Japan quickly completed the modernization process and rose to become a powerful East Asia country. The economic and social development momentum of the Qing Dynasty was very highKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw was almost restricted by the corrupt political system.
The painful lesson came again. After Japan’s rise, 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, Chinese society fell into deeper darkness.
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In modern Chinese history, the second half of the 19th century was an excellent development opportunity, why did it 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 compete for it. DrawThere is obviously a responsibility that cannot be shirked to take more important and more critical reforms.
Looking back on history, the twists and turns and limitations in the exploration of China’s modernization path is sad.
The times have limitations, and individuals have limitations. The late Qing Empire was in trouble and full of holes at home and abroad, and Li Hongzhang alone sustained the crisis and exhausted his efforts.witch cloth draw has also completed the mission. But he did not seize this good opportunity to accelerate modernization and failed to complete the modernization process through peaceful improvement. He finally had some regrets.
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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 good 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