What do you think of recent history? How do you evaluate modern Chinese history?

If you fall behind, you will be beaten.

During the Qing Dynasty, it was against capitalism, so there was no motivation to study new technology, and Britain, France, the United States and other countries have carried out bourgeois revolutions to remove obstacles to the development of capitalism, and when bourgeois products are in short supply, they must carry out industrial revolution and develop new technologies.

When all imperialist and capitalist countries become strong, they want to seek greater interests, so they invade and expand abroad and build colonies.

I think so... There will always be more advanced Chinese who can realize the dangers of the Qing Dynasty's seclusion. In the end, someone should learn from a foreign country, introduce capitalism, or build a new dynasty on their own...

There are advantages and disadvantages to foreign invasion, and this issue should be debated.

Invading without humanity is indeed cruel and inhumane.

But foreign invasion has also accelerated China's progress.

This world is like this, the world civilization has reached another level, and if you don't want to progress, you can only get beaten.

This truth also has great positive significance for today's society!!

Learning is the best progress. Improve every day.

Limited in evaluating complex political and historical issues, but can provide some objectivity on historical facts. Here are some opinions and facts just for reference. China's modern history was a time of war, political turmoil, and social change.

Among the most important events were the Taiping Rebellion, the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Xinhai Revolution, the First Kuomintang-Communist Civil War, and the War of Resistance Against Japan. During this period, China's political tremor movement underwent a transition from an imperial system to a republican system, and then to the rise of communism. These political reforms are often driven by foreign pressure and internal unrest.

However, these changes have not led to real political stability and social progress. After years of war, disaster, and poverty, it was not until the 1980s that China's economic reforms began to truly prosper. Overall, China's modern history has been a time of great challenges and opportunities.

Although it was a dark period, it also laid the foundation for the development of China's economic, cultural, and social systems.

In China's modern history, from 1840 to 1945, the first Opium War broke out in the 19th year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1840 in the Gregorian calendar). Due to the weakness and incompetence of the Qing **, Pandora's box was opened, and many Western powers coveted the wealth of this mysterious country. From the Sino-British "Treaty of Nanjing" in 1842 to the "Xinchou Treaty" in 1901, hundreds of unequal treaties imposed on us by the Western powers in the past 60 years, nearly 160 million square kilometers of territory were ceded, and the compensation was more than 700 million taels (excluding interest).

The 10,000-kilometer coastline is all a semi-colonial country. Foreigners enjoy extrajudicial rights in China and do whatever they want. This humiliating history has become a knot in the heart of every Chinese.

Since then, the outstanding sons and daughters of the Chinese nation have begun a struggle to change China's destiny. In 1949, the People's Republic of China led by the People's Army defeated the US imperialism and its Western vassals, led the Chinese nation from prosperity to prosperity and strength, and washed away the shame of a century of modern times.

1. Significance. (1) prevented the imperialist powers from carving up China;

2) It preserves China's long-standing culture for thousands of years;

3) prevented the possible outbreak of an imperialist war;

4) It promoted the awakening of the broad masses of the Chinese people and became "one of the cornerstones of the great victory of the Chinese people fifty years later."

2. Introduction to the Boxer Rebellion.

The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-imperialist patriotic movement of the peasant class.

The Boxers were originally known as Boxers, and their participants were called "boxers" and derogatorily called "boxers". Yihequan was originally related to traditional folk secret religions such as the White Lotus Sect, which had long been popular in Shandong and Zhili (present-day Hebei Province).

Objectively, the Boxer Rebellion prevented the imperialist powers from carving up China and promoted the awakening of the broad masses of the Chinese people.

3. Reasons for failure.

The leading class of the Boxer Rebellion was the peasant class, and the basic masses were peasants and small craftsmen, and they could not put forward a realistic revolutionary program. Initially, they were aimed at "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty", and they were repeatedly suppressed by the Qing Dynasty. In the face of a serious national crisis, the Boxers pointed the spearhead of their struggle at imperialism and put forward the slogan of "helping the Qing and destroying the foreigners."

Due to the limitations of the peasant class and the absence of the leadership of the advanced class, the Qing Dynasty headed by the Empress Dowager Cixi, in order to avoid the attack of the Boxer Rebellion, was forced to adopt the deceptive method of false declaration of war and real surrender, surrendered to imperialism externally, and suppressed the Boxer Rebellion internally, so that the Boxers were in a situation of internal and external attack. It was defeated under the attack of domestic and foreign enemies.

Objective causes: the joint strangulation of Chinese and foreign reactionary forces (i.e., the main causes).

Subjective reasons: The "Fuqing" in "Fuqing" in "Fuqing and Exterminating the Foreigners" caused the Boxers to lose their due vigilance and blindly xenophobic.