How did the semi colonial and semi feudal society of modern China come into being?

The nature of modern China is a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and this kind of society is a deformed society. There is a historical process in which China has changed from an independent feudal society to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

1) The Opium War in 1840 and the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing between China and Britain in 1842 made China begin to degenerate into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the Opium War became the beginning of China's modern history.

2) From October 1856 to October 1860, Britain, France, the United States and Russia launched the Second Opium War, plundered a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, and ceded more than 1.5 million square kilometers of land in China through unequal treaties, further deepening China's semi-colonization.

3) From 1894 to 1895, Japan launched the Sino-Japanese War and signed the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Shimonoseki, an unequal treaty that greatly deepened China's semi-colonization.

4) From 1900 to 1901, the eight-nation alliance invaded China and signed the "Xinqiao Treaty" with China, this unequal treaty added a new heavy burden to the Chinese people and seriously damaged China's sovereignty. China was completely reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. Imperialist aggression is the fundamental reason why China has degenerated into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the dark rule of feudalism is also an important reason for the formation of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

The Opium War began to degenerate China into a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society;

The Second Opium War deepened the semi-colonization of China.

The Sino-Japanese War greatly deepened China's semi-colonization.

The signing of the Treaty of Xincho in the Eight-Nation Coalition War plunged China into the abyss of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

(1) The First Opium War caused China to lose its independent status and began to degenerate into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the nature of Chinese society underwent great changes.

2) The Second Opium War deepened the degree of semi-colonization of China as a result of the foreign invading forces from the coast to the interior, from the southeast coast to the northeast coast.

3) The defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War and the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki greatly accelerated the process of semi-colonization of China.

4) The Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China in 1900 and the Treaty of Xinchou signed in 1901 finally made China a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

2. Formation factors.

1) Internal factors.

Unlike developed countries in Europe and other places, China at that time was in the form of a feudal society for a long time, forming a more powerful natural economy than European countries. The long-term feudal society has made the people lack sufficient understanding of the world situation, and the whole society has a general Chinese-centric mentality and rejects foreign cultures. Under the condition that the commodity economy was not very developed and the natural economy was absolutely dominant, the phenomenon of wage labor was difficult to develop due to the ideological constraints of the time.

As a result, the social productive forces have stagnated, and there is a huge gap between the national strength and the capitalist countries. politically controlled by a foreign country, controlling customs duties for the purpose of dumping goods; Factories were established through the establishment of concessions. As a result, the state is under the control of capitalism on all fronts, but there is still formal sovereignty.

2) External factors.

With the unprecedented development of the productive forces of the capitalist countries after the industrial revolution, the interests of the Chinese market at that time were no longer sufficient to meet the needs of the bourgeoisie; At the same time, the production of large quantities of goods requires sufficient raw materials and labor to sustain it. In this way, the possession of a feudal state with abundant raw materials, a vast market, and cheap labor became the primary goal of the bourgeoisie. The attitude of the capitalist countries** towards economic development is liberal and mercantilist, using the state apparatus to defend the bourgeoisie of the country, and seeking colonies for the capitalist development of the country through diplomacy, economics and even force.

For countries that use barriers to close their markets, they will all be resolved by force, and then the legal basis for opening the market will be determined by unequal treaties. With the continuous strengthening of external factors, eventually the colonial tendency of the former semi-colonial and semi-feudal society will become more and more obvious.

The Treaty of Nanking marked the beginning of China's descent into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

The Treaty of Shimonoseki marked the deepening of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

The Treaty of Xinchou marked China's complete degeneration into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

A sign of the gradual formation of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.