What is the beginning of modern Chinese history

The First Opium War, fought between the British Empire and the Qing Empire, lasted from 1840 to 1842 and ended in the victory of the British Empire. Since then, China has begun to degenerate into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. So it was the beginning of modern China.

After the Opium War in 1840, the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949.

The Opium War of 1840 opened China's doors and marked the beginning of China's modern history.

The Opium War was called, and it was called modern history after 1840. After 1949, it was called modern history, synthesizing modern Chinese history.

The Opium War of 1840 opened the door to China, marking the beginning of China's modern history, and China began its modern humiliation.

Opium War of 1840.

Its manifestations: Politics: China's sovereignty was destroyed, and the independent feudal state gradually degenerated into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal state.

Economy: The natural economy began to disintegrate, and foreign capitalism began to invade China.

Ideology: Western industrial thought began to impact traditional Chinese Confucianism.

The Opium War of 1840 was the beginning of modern Chinese history.

In 1840, the Opium War broke out, the Qing Dynasty was defeated, land was ceded, reparations were paid, and treaty ports were opened.

The beginning of modern Chinese history: the First Sino-Japanese War.

Traditional view: the May Fourth Movement of 1919; New perspective: The founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

1. Traditional view, modern history from the Opium War in 1840 to the May Fourth Movement in 1919, and modern history from the May Fourth Movement in 1919 to the founding of New China in 1949.

Because the May Fourth Movement marked that the Chinese People's Revolution had since become an ally of the proletarian world revolution and was no longer an ally of the bourgeois world revolution, that is to say, the nature of the Chinese revolution had since developed from the old democratic revolution to the new democratic revolution.

2. New perspectives, modern history from the Opium War in 1840 to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and modern history (contemporary history) from the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present.

Because: the founding of the People's Republic of China marked the transformation of China from a semi-colonized and half-feudal country to a completely independent country.

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. This is the history of China's gradual degeneration into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and it is also the history of the Chinese people's pursuit of national independence and national rejuvenation. Therefore, the beginning of modern Chinese history was the Opium War.

China's modern history is divided into two stages: from the Opium War in 1840 to the eve of the May Fourth Movement in 1919, which is the stage of the old democratic revolution; From the May Fourth Movement in 1919 to the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it was the stage of the new democratic revolution.

The beginning of modern Chinese history was the outbreak of the Opium War, and the first unequal treaty in modern Chinese history was the Treaty of Nanjing, which was signed after the First Opium War.

After the defeat of the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty was forced to sign the Sino-British Treaty of Nanjing and its supplementary treaties, the Sino-American Treaty of Wang-Ha and the Sino-French Treaty of Whampoa, which was the starting point for the Chinese people to suffer from foreign capitalist enslavement and had a great impact on Chinese society.

After the Opium War, the nature of Chinese society began to undergo fundamental changes, that is, from an independent feudal society to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society step by step. The main contradiction in Chinese society has become the contradiction between foreign capitalism and the Chinese nation, and the contradiction between feudalism and the masses of the people.

China gradually began the anti-imperialist and anti-feudal bourgeois-democratic revolution. China's natural economy began to disintegrate as a result of the onslaught of foreign capitalism. There was also a tremendous shock in the realm of ideas. Therefore, the Opium War is the starting point of China's modern history.

The Opium War and the signing of a series of unequal treaties, such as the Treaty of Nanjing, marked China's entry into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

In 1794, the British East India Company began to produce opium into China**, and since then the import of opium into China has been increasing.

Opium flowed into China in large quantities and gradually became a drug that corrupted people's character, corroded people's minds, and stifled people's lives, and became an increasingly serious social problem. In 1796, the Qing Dynasty ordered the suspension of opium taxes and strictly prohibited the import of opium. Since then, several orders have been issued prohibiting the importation, trafficking, cultivation and consumption of opium.

Since then, opium** has become a completely illegal activity, and opium has changed from an open ** to a large-scale smuggling. The British bourgeoisie and its **extraction of a large amount of China** from opium**.

By 1830 and 1831, the number of opium smuggled into China had increased to 21,849 boxes, in 1836 and 1837 to 28,307 boxes, and in 1838 to 1839 to 35,500 boxes.

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 pushed and repented.

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 and blew up Zhang Zuolin.

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, seized Northeast China and North China successively, and Zhang Xueliang was dismissed because of a series of failures.

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.

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