The Impact of the Modern Industrial Revolution on Traditional Chinese Culture

Basically no direct impact, indirect effect a little.

Because the first industrial revolution just let the western countries on the road of capitalism, gradually powerful, and the Chinese Qing government is still the implementation of closed-door policy, failed to connect with the world, so when these countries to complete the industrial revolution, its aggression and expansion of the nature of the show, the need for more raw materials and the market, so to the middle of the nineteenth century, the United Kingdom came to China to dumping of opium, and then Lin Zexu's Tiger Gate Smoking Campaign gave them a good excuse to open China's door - that is, to start the Opium War, followed by the signing of the Treaty of Nanking, China's natural economy began to disintegrate, and was caught up in the vortex of capitalism, and began to fall into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

Then Britain in order to further expand the Chinese market, launched the second Opium War, after the Qing government realized that our country has a great gap with the Western countries in terms of weaponry and military technology, so it launched a 'study of advanced production technology in the West, the method of military training and the construction of modern national defense' of the foreign affairs movement, and finally, although it did not allow China to move towards wealth and power, but it did Objectively promote the development of capitalism in China, so that China appeared the first batch of modernized industrial enterprises, to promote the process of China's modernization.