The framework system of China's modern history was once based on class struggle. That is, it mainly includes: two processes, three climaxes and ten events.
The so-called two processes, that is, the process of imperialism turning China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society and the process of China people's final victory against imperialism and feudalism; The three climaxes were the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Boxer Rebellion and the Revolution of 1911. The ten major events were the Opium War, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolution, the Second Opium War, the Westernization Movement, the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War, the Reform Movement of 1898, the Boxer Movement, the Revolution of 1911, and the rule of Beiyang warlords.
The modern history of China is a history of humiliation full of disasters, backwardness and beatings, a history of China people's exploration of saving the country and realizing freedom and democracy, and a history of China people's struggle against aggression, overthrowing imperialism and realizing national liberation and feudalism and people's prosperity.
The modern history of China can be divided into two stages. The first stage was from the Opium War in 1840 to the eve of the May 4th Movement in19/9, which was the stage of the old democratic revolution. The second stage is from the May 4th Movement in 19 19 to the eve of the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, which is the stage of new-democratic revolution.
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Anti-aggression and anti-imperialism are the national contradictions between the Chinese nation and foreign invaders, which constitute a "semi-colonial society" in modern China. After the major western capitalist countries completed the second industrial revolution and entered the stage of imperialism one after another, anti-aggression developed into anti-imperialism.
Anti-feudalism and seeking democracy are class contradictions between China people (including peasants, workers, craftsmen, bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie and other revolutionary classes) and feudalism or forces (including landlord class and bureaucratic bourgeoisie), which constitute a "semi-feudal society" in modern China.
Ethnic contradiction and class contradiction are the main contradictions in contemporary China. Through struggle, ethnic contradictions will be transformed into national independence, and class contradictions will be transformed into people being masters of their own affairs. Thus formed the new China.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Modern History of China