Differences between China's Ancient Works and British Traditional Works

China: Work at sunrise and return at sunset.

Modern Britain: Working overtime

China Industry (Handicraft): Handmade Workshop

Modern Britain: big factories, big machines

China: Traditional Family Business Model

Modern Britain: Parents generally don't leave a legacy to their children who have the ability to run a factory.

China: Most of the population is engaged in agriculture.

Modern Britain: most of the population is workers (food is taken from abroad)

Throne: most dynasties were inherited by princes, and a few were ruled by consorts and eunuchs.

What you said about China's backwardness in the late Qing Dynasty is not entirely correct. If China does not close its doors to the outside world, it will have two prospects. It has been a colony of western powers for a long time.