(2) As pointed out in the materials, after the influence of the Opium War, China still failed to arouse enough reaction. Then, after the Second Opium War, under the great impact of the Second Opium War, the Westernization School of the landlord class in China launched a westernization movement demanding wealth, learning from the West step by step, from learning "artifacts" to "systems" during the 1898 Movement and the 1911 Revolution.
From the May 4th New Culture Movement to the May 4th New Culture Movement, there were also great external "impacts" on "ideas"-the Sino-Japanese War, Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China and the Treaty of Versailles. Can't help but say external
"Influence" has an influence on the development of China's modern history. From the development track of China's modern history, we can know that the foreign "shock" is an important factor in the development of China's modern history. So this model is still very enlightening.
As the Producers' Party Manifesto said, "Capitalism forces all ethnic groups to adopt the bourgeois mode of production if they don't want to perish". In the process of the expansion of the capitalist world, unjust aggressors are often progressives in the process of historical development. Just anti-aggressors are often laggards, and the process of aggression driven by greed often becomes an unconscious tool of history.
③ China society embarked on the road of modernization under specific historical conditions,
Of course, I don't agree with the conclusion of some western historians that the purpose of the Opium War was to help China's modernization. But it is undeniable that the invasion of foreign capitalism did break the feudal social chain in China.
It provided an opportunity for China to modernize, and made China in the19th century move from feudal backwardness to modernization.