The modern history of China is a history from the First Opium War (1840) to the collapse of the Nanking Kuomintang regime (1949) and the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC). The semi-colonial and semi-feudal society in China gradually formed and disintegrated after the late Qing Dynasty, the provisional government of the Republic of China, the northern warlords and the national government.

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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1839 Lin zexu destroyed opium in Humen

1840-1842 opium war

184 1 May, the people of Sanyuanli in Guangzhou defeated the British invaders.

1842 China and Britain signed with treaty of nanking, ending the Opium War.

65438+ The proletariat in China was born in the 1940s and 1950s.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Modern History of China