Li Hongzhang Stills
Text/Yangcheng Evening News reporter Xia Yang
Since the Opium War in 1840, China has gradually become a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and the Chinese nation is facing “great changes unseen in three thousand years.”
Although the signing of the Sino-British Nanjing Treaty was deprived of power and humiliating the country, the contradictions between China and foreign countries reached a temporary balance. At this time, China should have learned from the pain and seized the opportunity to work hard. But then welcoming a series of domestic and foreign wars. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement had not yet subsided, and the Second Opium War broke out again, and the British and French coalition forces fought all the way from southern China to Beijing.
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Faced with internal and external difficulties and national dangers, China is exploring the way to survive reform. Western forces opened the door to China with strong ships and profits, making the “Boss Empire” realize that they were really behind. Therefore, Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan and other pioneering ideas of “opening their eyes to the world” have gradually gained more recognition. At the same time, the call for learning from the West has gradually become a social trend.
Learning from the West is the path of modernization in China. However, what to learn and how to learn test the ruling people at that time.
Empress Dowager Cixi Stills
In this bigKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw change, standing at the bow of the Qing Dynasty and being the most capable of determining the course of the big shipBabaylan 1990 clothes draw charactersThere are two: one is Empress Dowager Cixi, who began to rule from behind the scenes in 1861 until her death in 1908. For nearly half a century, she was the master of the Qing Dynasty.
The other is Li Hongzhang, a “major official of ZTE”. He rose step by step in the war to eliminate the Taiping and Nian Army in the 1860s, and for a long time he mastered the internal and diplomatic power of the Qing government until he died of illness in 1901. He was regarded by Japanese Prime Minister Hirofumi Ito as “the only person in the Qing Empire who was capable of competing with the world’s powers” and Empress Dowager Cixi also regarded him as “the man of recreating the mysteriousKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawyellow”.
Li Hongzhang, an important official of the late Qing Dynasty, Data picture
What to learn from the WestBabaylan 1990 clothes draw? The repeated failures of foreign wars, Li Hongzhang and other leaders of the Westernization faction had a dream of enriching the country and strengthening the army. Therefore, they proposed “learning the barbarians’ strengths and skills to control the barbarians” and started from a technical level. With his efforts, the Westernization Movement was vigorously carried out. It quickly created a large number of military and civil industries such as ordnance, shipbuilding, and iron, and mines, textiles, and telegraphs, and used the “official supervision and commercial office” method to attractPrivate capital runs industry.
The Westernization Movement laid a certain foundation for modern industrialization. Data picture
It goes without saying that the Westernization Movement has achieved great results. With the help of latecomer advantages, China has achieved tremendous development in economy, science and technology, concepts and other aspects in a short period of time, quickly laying a certain industrial foundation for traditional agricultural countries and profoundly changing people’s lives.
In 1888, China’s first modern fleet, the Beiyang Navy, officially formed an army and became the most powerful naval force in Asia. This was the peak period of the Westernization Movement, known in history as “Tongguang ZTE”. Undoubtedly, Li Hongzhang is a “minister of Zhongxing”. The whole country was complacent about the achievements of the Westernization Movement and believed that learning from the West had achieved great success.
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However, it is this superficial effect that covers up the existing problems.
The Westernization MovementKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw This road to enriching the country and strengthening the army has had great limitations from the beginning. They are positioned as “middle school as the body and Western learning as the purpose”, but they still cannot let go of the superiority of the old empire and are only willing to learn to decorate the storefront, and do not touch on fundamental issues such as the system.
It is a good reference system to start learning from Japan two years later than the Qing government. In addition to learning from the West, Japan carried out the Meiji Restoration, and comprehensively learned from the economy, military to politics, education, etc., and carried out relatively thorough social improvements to Japan’s Babaylan 1990 clothes draw.
So, China and Japan, as “classmates”, gradually widened the gap. Japan quickly completed the process of modernization and rose to become a powerful country in East Asia. The development momentum of the Qing Dynasty’s economic and social economy and society was quickly restricted by the corrupt political system.
The painful lesson came again. After Japan’s rise, it launched the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and the Beiyang Navy, known as the number one in Asia, was wiped out. This also declared that the foreign country’s economic and social development was quickly constrained by the corrupt political system.
The painful lesson came again. After Japan’s rise, it launched the Sino-Japanese War of 1895. The Beiyang Navy, known as the number one in Asia, was wiped out. This also declared that the foreign country was The bankruptcy of the draw movement. From then on, Chinese society fell into deeper darkness. Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw
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In modern Chinese history, the second half of the 19th century was an excellent development opportunity, why could not grasp it better? Although there are factors restricting and hindering conservative forces, Li Hongzhang, who are knowledgeable and hardworking to guide China’s progress, did not strive for more important and more critical changesBabaylan 1990 cloth drawReflection on history, the twists and turns and limitations in the exploration of China’s modernization path are sad.
The times have limitations, and individuals have limitations. The late Qing Dynasty Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawEmperorBabaylan 1990 cloth drawHome and foreign affairs are full of holes. Li Hongzhang alone sustained the crisis and exhausted his efforts, which was considered to have completed his mission. But he did not grasp it. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan 1990 cloth drawThis is a good opportunity to accelerate modernization, but it has not been possible to use peaceful improvement methods.>There are some regrets in completing the modernization process.
The disaster-stricken modern China Data picture
and thenBabaylan 1990 clothes draw The Chinese nation stumbled into the 20th century. In the following half century, the Chinese people set off a wave of reform and revolution, and continued to explore the path of rejuvenation and power in the midst of war.
Source | YangchengBabaylan 1990 cloth draw Evening News·Yangcheng School Editor | Xia Yang