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 “a major change that has not been seen in three thousand years.” Although the signing of the Sino-British Nanjing Treaty was deprived of power and humiliating the country, the conflict 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. Babaylan But then we were a series of internal 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.
Modern China has been repeatedly invaded by foreign enemies Data picture
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 powerful cannons, making the “Boss Empire” realize that they were really behind. Therefore, Lin Zexu and Wei Yuan, the pioneering ideas of “opening their eyes to the world” have gradually gained more recognition, and the call for learning from the West has gradually become social thoughts.
Learning from the West is the path of modernization in China. However, what to learn and how to learn tests the ruling people at that time.
Empress Dowager Cixi Stills
In this major change, there are two key figures who are most capable of determining the course of the ship in the Qing Dynasty: one is Empress Dowager Cixi, who began to rule behind the curtain in 1861, and until her death in 1908, she was the master of the Qing Dynasty for nearly half a century.
The other is Li Hongzhang, the “major official of Zhongxing”. He rose step by step in the war to wipe out the Taiping Army and the Nian Army in the 1860s, and he held the internal and diplomatic power of the Qing government for a long time 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 “a person who recreated Xuanhuang.”
Li Hongzhang, an important official of the late Qing Dynasty, Data picture
Study Western learningKomiksWhat? Due to repeated failures of foreign wars, leaders of the Westernization faction such as Li Hongzhang all had a dream of a prosperous country to strengthen their troops, so they proposed to “learning the barbarians’ strengths to control the barbarians” and learn from the technical level.
Under his efforts, the Westernization Movement was vigorously carried out, and Cinema quickly created a large number of military and civil industries such as ordnance, shipbuilding, railways, mining, textiles, and telegraphs, and adopted the “official supervision and business” method to attract private capital to run industries.
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 1988, the Beiyang Navy, China’s first modern fleet, formed an army and became the most powerful naval force in Asia. This was the peak period of the Westernization Movement Babaylan, known in history as “Tongguang ZTE”. Undoubtedly, Li Hongzhang is a “minister of the revival”. The whole country is complacent about the achievements of the Westernization Movement, believing that learning from the West has achieved great success.mov.com/”>KomiksSkills.
Beiyang Navy Stills
However, it is this superficial effect that covers up the existing problems.
The Westernization Movement, the road to enriching the country and strengthening the army, has great limitations from the beginning. They are positioned as “middle school as the body, Western learning as the useCinema“, but still couldn’t let go of the superiority of the old empire, and only wanted to learn to decorate the storefront, and did not touch on fundamental issues such as the system.
When I started learning from the West two years later than the Qing government, it was a good reference system for Cinema. Also learning from the West, Japan carried out the Meiji Restoration, and comprehensively learned from economy, military to politics, Komiks education, and carried out a relatively thorough social improvement to Japan.
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href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema, as a “classmate”, gradually widened the gap. Japan quickly completed the modernization process and rose to become a powerful East Asia country. The economic and social development momentum of the Qing Dynasty was quickly restricted by a 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, which also declared the bankruptcy of the Westernization Movement. From then on, the Chinese society Babaylan will fall into deeper darkness.
Sino-Japan Navy Battle Step
In modern Chinese history, the second half of the 19th century was an excellent developmentBabaylan timing, why didn’t I seize the better? Although this is restricted and hindered by conservative forces, Li Hongzhang and others who have the knowledge and strive to guide China’s progress have not fought for more important and more critical reforms, and obviously they have unshirkable responsibilities.
Looking back on history based on the present, the twists and limitations in China’s exploration of the road to modernization are sad.
Komiks has limitations in the generation, and individuals have limitations in the Babaylan. Cinema The late Qing Empire was at home and abroad, and was full of holes. Li Hongzhang alone survived the crisis and exhausted his efforts, which was considered to have completed his mission. But he did not seize this good opportunity to accelerate modernization and failed to complete the modernization process through peaceful improvement. He finally had some regrets.
Modern China with many disasters and difficulties Data picture
And with the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, 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 | Yangcheng Evening News Babaylan·Editor of Yangcheng School | Xia Yang