What are the similarities between western modernization and China's traditionalism?

1, the same: both are tool mechanization and modern urbanization.

2. Difference: the modernization of the West is carried out independently, for example, the enclosure movement in Britain has promoted the modernization of Britain; However, what China did was passive. China was forced to open its doors in western countries, become a colony of the west, become a raw material producing area and a dumping place of goods in the west, and was forced to start the modernization process.

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China's modernization process has gone through three periods: learning technology, learning system and learning thought.

Learning technology is the Westernization Movement, modern military enterprises and modern private enterprises were founded by "self-improvement" and "seeking wealth", and the learning system was the Reform Movement of 1898 and the Revolution of 1911. Learning concept is a new cultural movement.

China first studied technology (Westernization Movement), then studied political system (Reform Movement of 1898, Revolution of 1911), and finally advocated learning culture (New Culture Movement).

In the west, on the contrary, it was ideology and culture (Enlightenment) that promoted political change (French Revolution), and then politics promoted scientific and technological progress (Industrial Revolution).