Briefly describe two fundamental changes in China society after the Opium War?

First, with the change of social nature, China's feudal natural economy began to disintegrate after the Opium War and became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

Second, the change of social contradictions has changed from the contradiction between the landlord class and the masses to the contradiction between the masses and imperialism and the landlord class, with the former becoming the main contradiction.

The Opium War was a turning point in the history of China, which brought about fundamental changes in China's social economy. The traditional economic structure of small-scale peasant economy began to collapse. China's silk and tea production and export are becoming increasingly commercialized, and it has embarked on the road of relying on foreign capitalism. In this way, China gradually attached to the world capitalist system and became the commodity market and raw material producing area of the great powers.

Western powers forced China to sign unequal treaties through wars and seized economic privileges, such as opening trading ports, negotiating tariff rights, inland navigation rights, mainland missionary and business, tourism, and unilateral MFN treatment rights. And gradually expand the aggression against China, a large number of foreign goods flooded into China, plundering China's raw materials.

China's traditional self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy, China's five-port trade zone, was impacted by foreign countries and began to collapse.

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The Opium War was China's 1 war against the western capitalist powers. The British defeated China with fewer troops and less cost. The reason is that the enemy's weapons have an objective advantage, the strategy and tactics are properly used, most of the troops can be concentrated in coastal cities, and the economic lifeline is occupied. In combat, frontal attack and side attack are often combined.

Subjectively, it is mainly the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government. Political Corruption The feudal social system in China became more decadent in the 1930s. Not only is the economy stagnant and very backward, which weakens the economic foundation for winning the war, but the whole ruling group is filled with hedonism and corruption.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Opium War