工业革命与鸦片战争 英语专业学生制作
The Industrial Revolution and the Opium Wars
With the founded of the Constitutional Monarchy, the great changes took place in Britain. Human power was rapidly being supplanted by machine power, the domestic system was being replaced by the factory system. England was soon becoming the workshop of the world. Britain was more and more booming. Finally, we called the great industrial changes as "The Industrial Revolution".This industrial Revolution had affected many European countries. It made many agricultural countries turned into industrial countries. It also provided historical opportunities to Britain.
However, China faced some problems at the same period. After the Industrial Revolution, the Britain began to start the Opium Wars. After the war ,China became semi-colonial and semi-feudal society step by step. The principal conflict in the Chinese society, the landlord class and the peasant class contradictions, into foreign capitalism and the contradiction of the Chinese nation, feudalism and the masses of the contradictions, and the former become the main contradiction of the conflict.In order to boom our country, Chinese people start against foreign invaders, They against its feudal rulers struggle as well. From then, Chinese history went into the old democratic revolution. The Opium War is the turning point of Chinese history.