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Find a short historical essay on China's modern history in my eyes.
China is an ancient oriental country with a long history. The industrious and brave people of China have created a splendid 5,000-year Chinese civilization. In the long years, I have been at the forefront of the world. From the19th century, western capitalist countries cooperated with the industrial revolution and prospered. China, on the other hand, is still wandering on the road of feudalism, and the rule of the Qing Dynasty is crumbling, with the river going from bad to worse and the sun setting.

1840, foreign capitalism opened the door of ancient China with strong ships and guns. The Opium War, the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China were disasters imposed on the Chinese nation one after another. In the past century, almost all capitalist countries in the world launched one or even many wars of aggression against China. There are open invasions and undeclared wars; Individual invasions and even joint looting forced China to sign thousands of unequal treaties. Through these unequal treaties, capitalist powers fostered feudal forces as a tool to rule China; Eating and annexing the territory of China; Sending troops to control and steal China's military territory; Divide the sphere of influence; Control important trading ports and establish concessions; Exercise consular jurisdiction and unilateral MFN treatment; Extortion of huge reparations through war; Dumping goods and exporting capital in China. Colonialism promoted by foreign capitalist powers caused great social, political, economic and cultural turmoil in China, and China gradually became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. Since then, the people of China have waged a long-term indomitable struggle to get rid of the oppression of foreign capitalism and domestic feudalism.

Since 1840, the crisis of national subjugation and extinction has been threatening this thousand-year-old country. When the Chinese nation was in danger, a generation of national elites woke up: Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan's "Learning from foreigners to control foreigners"; Anti-Qing peasant uprising led by Hong Xiuquan; Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao's "reform is strong"; Sun yat-sen's national revolution. It was they who stood up at the critical juncture of national life and death, bravely fought against foreign aggression, and strived for national independence and liberation, and wrote an epic and tragic chapter in China's modern history.