What is modern China like? What was society like in modern China?

Modern China is not what it is! First of all, there were constant foreign troubles, the Opium War was fought twice in a row, and it was flattened, and the signing of one unequal treaty after another between China and foreign countries in modern times began here, and the subsequent First Sino-Japanese War and the Battle of the Eight-Nation Alliance were even more unbearable. The second is internal troubles, first the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and then the Boxers, the former tried their best to suppress it, and the latter took advantage of it in vain, and they all ended up in disarray.

Thirdly, in the face of internal and external troubles, we did not sit idly by, but strived for reform, from the self-improvement movement to the Wuxu reform, to the Xinhai Revolution, and finally to the May Fourth Movement, the wave of reform was higher and higher, and there was no way to turn the tide until the emergence of the Communist Party of China.

Modern Chinese history refers to the period from the Opium War in 1840 to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, which lasted about 110 years. From the perspective of history, modern Chinese history is based on the 110 years of Chinese history from 1840 to 1949. [5]

Chinese name. Modern Chinese History.

Foreign name. Chinese modern history time frame. c. June 1840 to October 1, 1949.

In modern times, as imperialism has continuously deepened its aggression against China, two fundamental changes have taken place in Chinese society: one is that independent China has become a semi-colonial China, and the other is that a feudal society has become a semi-feudal society, that is, capitalism has been born and developed. These developments are manifested in two interrelated processes:

The first is the process of combining imperialism with Chinese feudalism and turning China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and the first is the process of the Chinese people resisting imperialism and its lackeys and exploring the road to save the country and the people. What the modern Chinese people's struggle has to solve is the two major historical themes of opposing imperialism and opposing feudalism, that is, fulfilling the task of the national democratic revolution. To sum up, as stated in the History Syllabus:

China's modern history is a history of humiliation in China's gradual degeneration into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society; It is also a history of the Chinese people persisting in the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle in order to strive for national independence and social progress, and winning the victory of the new democratic revolution under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

Modern China is getting better and better with harmony, friendship, prosperity, democracy, equality, justice, rule of law, civilization and integrity.

The nature of modern China was a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. On the one hand, the traditional feudal society was no longer enough to support the continued development of the country, and on the other hand, it was invaded by the colonial empire.

Industry and agriculture were relatively backward, and foreign technology began to be introduced, and in the initial beginning, the Chinese began to work hard to save the country.

1.The main contradiction in modern China.

the contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation; The contradiction between feudalism and the masses of the people is the main contradiction in modern China. The two main contradictions in modern Chinese society are intertwined, and the contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation is the most important contradiction.

2.Social nature.

Chinese society is semi-colonial and semi-feudal.

The semi-colonial and semi-feudal society of Chinese society is a deformed social form subordinate to the capitalist world system that has gradually formed in China since modern times under the conditions of the invasion of foreign capitalist forces and its integration with Chinese feudal forces.

Chinese society before the Opium War was feudal. After the Opium War, with the invasion of foreign capital-imperialism, the nature of Chinese society underwent fundamental changes: independent China gradually became a semi-colonial China; Feudal China gradually turned into semi-feudal China.

3.Basic features:

First, the capitalist-imperialist invading forces have not only gradually manipulated China's financial and economic lifelines, but also gradually controlled China's politics, becoming increasingly the decisive force dominating China.

Second, China's feudal forces are declining day by day and colluding with foreign invading forces, becoming the social foundation and ruling pillar of capital-imperialist oppression and enslavement of the Chinese people.

Third, although China's natural economic foundation has been destroyed, the land ownership system of feudal landlords, the foundation of the feudal exploitation system, is still maintained in a vast area, which has become a serious obstacle to China's modernization and democratization.

Fourth, although China's emerging national capitalist economy has emerged and played a certain role in political and cultural life, under the oppression of imperialist feudalism, its development is very slow and its strength is very weak, and most of it is more or less connected with foreign capital, imperialism and domestic feudalism.

Fifth, because modern China was under the contention and indirect rule of the capitalist-imperialist powers, the economic, political, and cultural development of various regions in modern China was extremely unbalanced, and China was in a state of disunity for a long time.

Sixth, under the dual oppression of capital, imperialism and feudalism, the broad masses of the Chinese people, especially the peasants, have become increasingly impoverished and bankrupt in large numbers, living a life of hunger and cold and without political power.

China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society and its characteristics were gradually formed with the expansion of imperialist aggression and the deepening of the integration of imperialism with China's feudal forces.

The Qing court lost the Opium War, and modern Chinese history began.

The successive failures of the Westernization Movement, the Reform Movement, and the Constitutional Movement prompted intellectuals to begin to oppose the Qing Dynasty, typified by Sun Yat-sen.

The revolutionaries succeeded in the Wuchang uprising, and the Qing court was overthrown.

Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the revolution, and China entered the Beiyang era.

Yuan Shikai was proclaimed emperor, but was opposed by the whole country and overthrown**.

After Yuan Shikai**, the three carriages of Beiyang ** began to fight, first Duan Qirui fell, and then Zhang Zuolin was defeated, and Wu Peifu became the big winner.

It is known in history as the First Zhibong War.

Zhang Zuolin was not willing to fail, and after the great reform, he launched the second Zhifeng War and defeated Wu Peifu.

Subsequently, Chiang Kai-shek's Northern Expedition defeated Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang, and the Japanese helped Chiang Kai-shek, killing Zhang Zuolin, and his eldest son Zhang Xueliang changed his banner, and China achieved formal unification.

After the reunification, China fell into a protracted civil war, mainly because of Chiang Kai-shek's **** suppression of local powerful factions.

The Japanese pressed forward step by step, successively seized Northeast China and North China, and Zhang Xueliang was dismissed because of a series of defeats.

Zhang Xueliang launched the Xi'an Incident and forced Chiang to resist Japan.

The Xi'an Incident was resolved peacefully, and the anti-Japanese national united front was formed.

In 1937, the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began, and in 1945, China won and became one of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

In 1946, Chiang Kai-shek tore up the Double Tenth Agreement and launched a full-scale civil war.

On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was founded, and modern history ended.

Hope it helps.

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.

First, the First Opium War and the signing of unequal treaties such as the Sino-British Treaty of Nanking became the starting point of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal status.

Second, the Second Opium War that began in 1856 and the signing of the second batch of unequal treaties such as the Treaty of Tientsin and the Treaty of Beijing accelerated the evolution to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

Third, the Sino-Japanese War and the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki further deepened the semi-colonial and semi-feudal degree of Chinese society.

Fourth, the war of aggression against China by the Eight-Nation Coalition in 1900 and the "Xinchou Treaty" signed the following year made the Qing Dynasty completely a tool of imperialist control over China, marking the formal formation of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

The radical cause of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society is the radical cause of capital's optimism and imperialist aggression, and the dark rule of feudalism is also an important reason for the formation of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.