The positive influence of the landlord class represented by the Westernization Movement

The representative figures of the Westernization Movement are Prince Gong Yixin and Wenxiang, and the local representative figures are Zeng Guofan.

Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang.

Zhang Zhidong and others, in addition to Chonghou, Shen Baozhen, Liu Kun.

1. Tang Tingshu, Zhang Jian, etc. The Westernization Movement, also known as the Self-Improvement Movement. It was a self-help movement carried out by the Westernists of the late Qing Dynasty from the 60s to the 90s of the 19th century to introduce Western military equipment, machine production and science and technology to save the Qing Dynasty's rule.

The representative figures of the Westernization Movement are:

On January 11, 1861, Aixin Jueluo Yi.

Xin, together with Gui Liang and Wen Xiang, played the "Six Articles of the Regulations for the Overall Consideration of the Overall Situation" and launched a Westernization campaign with the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army. After the coup d'état of 1861, Cixi.

The Westernists introduced advanced science and technology from the West on a large scale and set up modern military industries and civilian enterprises. In 1894 during the Sino-Japanese War.

The total annihilation of the Beiyang Navy marked the bankruptcy of the Westernization Movement, which lasted for more than 30 years.

Although the Westernization Movement did not put China on the road to prosperity and strength. It objectively promoted China's early industry and national capitalism.

development. The Westernists inherited Wei Yuan's idea of "mastering the art of mastery to control the country" and aimed at "seeking strength" and "seeking prosperity" to develop the military industry and a number of civilian enterprises, so that the capitalist economic component increased markedly in the social economy. It became the beginning of modern education in China, spreading new knowledge and opening people's eyes.

The Westernization movement was of the landlord class.

First of all, the leader of this movement was the landlord class headed by Li Hongzhang, whose purpose was to consolidate the rule of the Qing Dynasty and safeguard the interests of the feudal landlord class by learning advanced Western technology.

Therefore, from the point of view of the leader and the purpose, it was a self-help movement of the feudal landlord class.

The Westernization Movement was a self-help movement led by a defeated ruling class of feudal landlords. The American sinologist Marie Rui commented on this phase of the "self-improvement" movement: "Not only a dynasty, but also a civilization seems to have collapsed, but thanks to the extraordinary efforts of some outstanding people in the sixties of the nineteenth century, they finally survived and lasted for another sixty years." ”

It is indeed a self-help movement of failed feudal rulers, because the core idea of the entire Westernization movement is to master the skills of the field to control the country, Li Hongzhang and other leaders of the Westernization movement sent many students to Western countries to learn their science and technology, for a strong country, but the decadent feudal system is the real reason for the country's backwardness and humiliation, and the Westernization movement is under the banner of the Qing Dynasty, safeguarding the interests of the Qing ruling class, so it is fundamentally the self-help movement of the feudal ruling class, It runs counter to the development trend of Chinese history, so it is doomed.