The difference between the Meiji Restoration and the Westernization Movement learning from the West

The Meiji Restoration was a bourgeois reform, and Japan embarked on the bourgeois road. The Westernization Movement learned Western techniques in order to maintain the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty. So there are different results.

The former learns from the advanced systems of the West, while the latter is just science and technology.

Similarities:

1) All of them are reforms implemented to get out of the predicament against the backdrop of invasion by Western powers, the intensification of the danger of colonies, and the sharpening of class contradictions at home. (2) On the basis of feudal society, they all accepted Western capitalist culture, transplanted the large machine industry of the West in a short period of time, and gradually expanded to civilian industry starting with the military industry.

Differences: 1) Although the Westernization Movement was mainly based on the introduction of advanced Western technology, as far as its advocates were concerned, it was a last resort under the bombardment of powerful artillery, and it still had a strong xenophobia in the depths of their minds. In the process of running foreign affairs, we still pin our hopes on the foreign powers, and in practice we will inevitably implement a way of compromise with foreign countries. The purpose of Japan's Meiji Restoration was to destroy the feudal forces represented by the shogunate, so that Japan could get rid of the political and economic crisis and take the capitalist road.

A social reform movement under the guidance of the idea of "Oriental morality and Western art".

2) The Westernization Movement followed a path of reform in collusion with feudal forces and foreign capital, and was bound to fail. However, the policies implemented by the Meiji Restoration, such as "returning the copyrights", "abolishing the feudal domains and replacing the prefectures", and "land tax reform", dealt a thorough blow to the feudal conservative forces and gradually embarked on the capitalist road.

The Westernization Movement only introduced Western science and technology into China through an improved form, so as to make China's national defense.

The economy and culture have reached a new level in order to maintain China's feudal system.

The Meiji Restoration changed Japan from the feudal shogunate to a constitutional monarchy and capitalism, thus embarking on a path of development like the West.

China's Westernization Movement = wanted to enhance its national strength simply by learning Western science and technology, but did not change the self-generated and rotten feudal system, so the decadent system hindered the development of science and technology, and the superficial learning of Western technology was useless, and did not essentially change the national strength. The Meiji Restoration learned from the West the system, changed the concept of education, and essentially changed the development of science and technology.

Although the Westernization Movement learned from the West, the Westernization Movement still maintained the decadent and backward feudal rule, while Japan learned from the West the rule of the emerging capitalism.

The purpose of the Chinese Westernization Movement was to learn from the West, but there was no purpose to resist the foreign powers.

In is the learning technology, day school system.