What do Wadsey think are the reasons for the decline of modern China?

Updated on history 2024-06-13
14 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    1. Since the 40s of the 19th century, that is, after the Opium War, the number of merchant ships coming to China has increased, and in order to repair the ships, foreign businessmen have invested in the unauthorized establishment of dock materials and labor, and foreign businessmen have illegally opened a number of processing factories in China's treaty ports, such as brick tea factories and silk reeling factories. Since then, foreign enterprises have emerged in China.

    2. Since the 60s of the 19th century, Western capitalist countries have begun to invest in and operate steamship companies in China, such as the American Qichang Steamship Company, and the British foreign invaders have also controlled China's customs management power, gradually controlling China's economic lifeline, and China's social economy has increasingly fallen into the capitalist market.

    3. Since the late 70s, foreign invaders have illegally exported capital to China, opened various factories in treaty ports, set up banks, etc.

    4. After the First Sino-Japanese War, since the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" allowed Japan to invest and set up factories in China, other powers invoked the clause of "equal interests" to legalize the list, and since then, various capitalist countries have invested and set up factories in China. Foreign capitalist economies occupy a monopoly position in the middle division because of their political and economic privileges.

    5. At the end of the 19th century, the imperialist countries exported capital to China on a large scale, seized the right of way and mining rights, opened banks, opened factories, and attached harsh conditions. After the signing of the Treaty of Xincho, the influence of foreign capitalist economies in China continued to increase.

    6. During World War I, because the Western powers had no time to look eastward, Japan seized the opportunity to expand its investment, and for a time formed a situation of monopolizing China. The signing of the post-war treaty of great powers brought the situation of common domination under the open-door policy back to the situation.

    7. After the establishment of the Nanjing National**, the foreign powers continued to expand the export of capital to China and further control China's financial and heavy industry.

    8. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in the occupied areas, the Japanese invaders defined the mining, iron and steel industry, and transportation industry as "control" undertakings, which were formed by the colonial economy of Japanese companies, and carried out barbaric economic plundering of the industrial and mining, agriculture, and financial industries under the purpose of "feeding the war with war"; In the national control area, strong.

    9. During the War of Liberation, the United States obtained political, economic, cultural, and military privileges, as well as a market for goods, and an investment market through the "Sino-US Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation."

    10. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people confiscated the imperialist enterprises in China and eliminated the aggressive forces of foreign capitalist economies in China.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    The reason for the decline of modern China is that they have only learned the advanced technology of the West, but have not learned the management experience of the West.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    。。Actually, according to high school politics (cultural life "Compulsory 3"), it is:

    1.Economy, politics and culture are the three basic areas of social life, among which economy is the foundation, politics is the concentrated embodiment of economy, and culture is the reflection of economy and politics. A certain culture is determined by a certain economy and politics.

    A certain social mode of production determines the formation of a certain social culture.

    2.Culture develops on the basis of inheritance and inherits in the process of development.

    3.The contradictory movement between the productive forces and the relations of production determines the changes in the social system and also determines the direction of cultural development. Whenever the old and the new social system are replaced, the new culture, which represents the new political and economic forces, effectively promotes the progress of culture through the struggle against the old culture, which represents the old political and economic forces.

    4.In terms of inheritance, science and technology and ideological movements will have an important impact on the development of culture. The progress of science and technology is an important factor in promoting economic development and cultural development. Ideological movements tend to lead to social change and promote cultural development.

    Summarize and add it yourself, and then talk about it in combination with historical materials. (

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    On the root causes of China's modern decline.

    For a long time, most people blamed the Qing Dynasty for the reason why China became a semi-colonial, semi-feudal state in modern times. But in my opinion, this is not the case.

    As we all know, the Qing Dynasty fell behind the world because of its seclusion, however, the policy of seclusion actually began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. And everyone knows that in the Ming Dynasty, there was a germ of capitalism in China, but the development was extremely slow, and there were many reasons for this, such as: the suppression and restraint of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the feudal era of despising the agricultural ideology of commerce, etc., these are all factors that curb the development of capitalism.

    The feudal system developed to the Ming Dynasty and was already in decline, but the Ming Dynasty constrained the development of capitalism, and the Ming Dynasty regime was corrupt, which created conditions for the Manchus outside the Guan. For the Manchus, they conquered an advanced nation with a backward civilization, so for them, the feudal system is a relatively advanced system, and they will naturally adopt the feudal system after entering the Central Plains, and in order to consolidate their rule, they will also follow some policies of the previous dynasty, such as the policy of retreat. This was already an improvement for the Manchus, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, and they continued to use Confucianism to shackle the minds of scholars in order to rule the Han Chinese.

    Under such circumstances, the development of Chinese capitalism was extremely slow, and the isolation led to a growing gap between China and the world, and while the West had begun the industrial revolution, China was still in the last prosperous era of feudal society--- the prosperous era of Kangqian. Then, China's decline will become inevitable.

    If the Ming Dynasty had not closed off the country, the imperial examination system had not become a system that bound scholars' thoughts, the Ming Dynasty had not hindered the development of capitalism, and the Ming Dynasty had not been corrupt enough to let the peasants revolt and overthrow it, and then let a relatively backward nation rule China, maybe China's fate would have been different, maybe capitalism would have developed and grown, and the bourgeoisie would have overthrown feudal rule and established a capitalist country.

    It's just a pity that history has no ifs.

    This is a masterpiece by netizens Aixinjue Luo Yinzhen, hehe, for your reference.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    As early as the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, when hundreds of schools of thought contended, it was the most active period of Chinese ideological sparks, and later the high-pressure rule after the unification of Qin made people dare not say many things and many ideas. Later, Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty deposed a hundred schools and respected Confucianism alone, which made Confucianism greatly developed, while all other schools of thought were suppressed, because Confucianism was the most able to maintain the dominance of feudal rulers, so since then, the thinking of the Chinese has begun to be seriously imprisoned. Later, although some dynasties were more open, it was always Confucianism that ruled the minds of the Chinese, and later it seemed that Cheng Zhu Lixue of the Song Dynasty further deepened the imprisonment of people's thoughts.

    This is a chronic disease that has been formed in China for a long time, and it has not been ** to this day. The direct reason can be regarded as the Qing Dynasty's policy of closing the country, China's long-term self-sufficiency makes the Chinese rest on their laurels, thinking that they are very advanced, but they do not know that Europe has undergone earth-shaking changes, and Europe, which has experienced several industrial revolutions, has surpassed China in terms of development, until it was forcibly opened by European countries to know that it has lagged behind others.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    The biggest problem is the blind arrogance of culture and the policy of closing off the country and restricting economic development.

    1. Blind arrogance and refusal to accept foreign new affairs and the new world, unwilling to explore the so-called "barbarian" land 2. The Qing Dynasty's sea ban policy and seclusion directly led to the development of science and technology far behind other civilizations.

    3. The entire Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties have restricted the development of the economy from the policy, and culturally they also despise the merchants, believing that "no businessmen are not traitors", and the merchants can only have a certain social status by buying and selling officials or befriending powerful people or having a profound cultural heritage, that is, the theory that "everything is inferior, only the study is high".

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The thunder is loud and the rain is small, but it's not actual! The technology is backward!

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    Hey, the people are suffering, and the people are suffering

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    1. After the opening of new shipping routes, the world became a whole, and Europe opened up colonies all over the world for the sake of capitalist development, and China was naturally no exception.

    2. The policy of closing the country to the outside world has made it very difficult for business exchanges between China and foreign countries, coupled with the long-term deficit with China, and in the case of a series of ineffective measures, Europeans choose to open China's door by force.

    3. The Opium War gave the Western powers a taste of sweetness, and they also knew that the Qing Dynasty's national strength was weakened and its aggression against China intensified.

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    China was originally a nation rich in wisdom, with many great creations and brilliant civilizations in ancient times, why did it come later, China's glory has become a permanent thing of the past, and it has been replaced by a very backward embarrassing situation? Modern China has completely lost that aura. Because our minds have been shackled by persuasion and persuasion, and under the deep-rooted "bad traditions", our spirit of inquiry is lost (the Qing Dynasty's policy of closing the country is a typical example), our minds are narrow-minded, and our pursuits are vulgar.

    We can't, even don't believe, that we can think for ourselves and create the world; We cannot accept ideas that are not to our liking; We are more interested in fame and fortune. We are not free in our minds, but the vast majority of us choose to accept and get used to it. The few who insist on their own ideas have become what we often call "indignation*".

    It is irresponsible to say that there is very little useful knowledge on our Internet, but it is full of accusations and abuse, vulgarity and copycats.

    To sum up, the reasons why China fell behind later are as follows:

    1. The shackles of the ruling class on people's minds.

    2. Complacent about occasional achievements, which is often said to be "lying on the grades and sleeping a lot".

    3. Lack of attention to science.

    4. Closed to oneself, always feel that foreign things are not as good as their original things, and reject foreign technology.

  11. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    17. In the Opium War, the reasons for China's defeat are summarized as follows: Subjectively:

    1) Clean up political corruption.

    2) China's feudal economy was backward.

    3) Backwardness of military technology and equipment.

    4) Improper military command of the Qing ruling group.

    Objectively: Britain is in a period of rising capitalism, with a developed capitalist economy, strong strength, and advanced science and technology. The fundamental reason is that decaying feudalism cannot stand against the emerging capitalism.

    Feelings: (1) If you are backward, you will be beaten (2) Learn from the West and overthrow the decadent feudal system. (3) Do not forget the national shame and work hard.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Analysis of the reasons for the failure of the Opium War.

    Specific reasons: 1. Political corruption;

    2) China's feudal economy was backward.

    3) Backwardness of military technology and equipment.

    4. The rulers of the Qing Dynasty, who held the leadership of the war, were uncertain in war and inappropriate in military command.

    The root cause is:

    Decaying feudalism could not stand against the emerging capitalism.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    First of all, the Chinese soldiers smoked opium, they were completely sick, how could they resist the enemy? Again**No! Take a fist and a Western gun to compare speed?

    The most important thing is the decision-making problem, they don't want to fight but can't fight, the orders they give are all wrong, they will attack and retreat, no one can afford to play! Closed off the country, you don't understand how foreign countries can win without understanding their combat methods?

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    The Treaty of Nanking enabled China to gradually degenerate from a feudal society to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society; The Treaty of Shimonoseki greatly deepened China's semi-colonization; The Treaty of Xincho completely reduced China to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The reason is that the feudal system has come to an end, and a new class is needed to lead the people.

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