The modern history of China is a history of humiliation full of disasters, backwardness and beatings, a history of China people's exploration of saving the country and realizing freedom and democracy, and a history of China people's struggle against aggression, overthrowing imperialism and realizing national liberation and feudalism and people's prosperity.
This period began with the outbreak of the Opium War in June of 1840 and ended with the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) in October of 1949+ 1 year 10. /kloc-The outbreak of the Opium War in 0/840 was a historical turning point in China's transformation from an independent feudal society to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and it was the beginning of China's modern history. The next hundred years, with the May 4th Movement of 19 19 as the boundary, are divided into two periods: the former is the old democratic revolution period and the latter is the new democratic revolution period, but both belong to the category of bourgeois democratic revolution.
In the whole semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, the social nature of China determines the main contradiction, revolutionary object and task nature of China society.
In modern history, there are two major social contradictions in China: the contradiction between foreign capitalism and the Chinese nation, and the contradiction between feudalism and the masses. The former is the most important contradiction.
However, in the course of history, the two major contradictions showed complicated and ups and downs, which stipulated that the historical theme of modern China was to overthrow foreign capital-imperialism, get rid of the rule and oppression of feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism, and strive for national liberation, national prosperity, social progress and people's happiness. In other words, the fundamental task of modern China was to thoroughly oppose imperialism and feudalism, realize national modernization and change the semi-colonial and semi-feudal social nature of modern China.