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What is the difference between Chinese and western social development in Ming and Qing Dynasties?
Comparison between China and foreign countries in Ming and Qing Dynasties

China's performance

Kanggan prosperous time-the last prosperous time, GDP accounts for the largest foreign trade surplus in the world, and silver has become one of the main currencies.

China hidden danger:

1. Politics: the feudal monarchy reached its peak and the feudal society went into decline; (

2. Economy: Self-sufficient natural economy is dominant, and the policy of "emphasizing agriculture and restraining business" is adhered to.

3. Ideology and culture: decadent stereotyped writers ossify people's thoughts, and Daxing "literary prison" hinders social progress;

4. despised by feudal rulers.

5, diplomacy: vanity and arrogance, closed to the outside world;

Western performances:

1. Politics: complete the bourgeois revolution one after another and embark on the road of capitalist development; British bourgeois revolution, American revolution, French revolution. Napoleon's foreign war)

2. Economy: Start the first industrial revolution.

3. Thought: Renaissance and Enlightenment

4. Science and technology: science centered on Newton's mechanical theory swept Europe;

5. Diplomacy: colonial expansion and plunder, new routes open the world market.

Summary:

1. Politically, China's imperial power and centralization have been continuously strengthened, while the western bourgeoisie pursues freedom, equality and natural human rights. Demanding political democratization.

2. Economically: Although China is economically developed, China is still dominated by a self-sufficient natural economy. The state adheres to the policy of "emphasizing agriculture and restraining commerce", while the development of western commodity economy has successively embarked on the road of capitalist development and started the process of industrialization.

3. Ideologically, China stifled ideas and destroyed culture, while the West experienced two ideological emancipation movements.

4. Diplomacy: China closed its doors to the outside world, and the western colonial expansion and plunder opened the world market.