What classes were there before the Opium War?

Before the Opium War, the class structure of China society was mainly the opposition between the landlord class and the peasant class. After the Opium War, the opposition between the two classes still existed, but with the invasion of foreign capitalism, China's natural economy began to collapse, China's national capitalism began to appear in the 1960s and 1970s, and the national bourgeoisie began to appear in China society.

With the appearance of foreign capitalist enterprises in China and the establishment of Westernization military and civilian industries, the China proletariat was born in these factories. At the same time, in foreign capitalist enterprises and westernization industries, some privileged comprador classes who serve and collude with them invest to set up their own enterprises, forming a special class, namely the comprador bourgeoisie, namely the big bourgeoisie.

1949, with the victory of the new-democratic revolution, the landlord class and the comprador class were overthrown. According to On People's Democratic Dictatorship published by Mao Zedong in 1949, the people of China at that time were composed of four social classes, namely, the working class, the peasant class, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie.