晚清的内忧外患与日本近代化

The Internal Disorder and Foreign Invasions of China during the Late Qing Dynasty and Start of Japanese Modernization

晚清遭受西方殖民主义的屡次侵略而渐次沉沦,内部又爆发大规模的农民起义,可谓内忧外患。这向尚处锁国状态的近邻日本频频发出强烈警报,使其获得改弦更张、积极面对列强来袭的启示,并断然走上开国、倒幕、维新的近代化之路。

China repeatedly suffered the aggressions of western colonialists and perished gradually during the late Qing dynasty. At the same time the large-scale peasant uprising erupted. This turned China into the situation of internal disorder and foreign invasions. This situation, however, send out the intense warning repeatedly to Japan which was closed off at that time from other countries, japan, with such enlightenment of reforming and defending against the invasion powers, stepped onto the modernization road of opening the country, opposing Tokugawa Shogunate movement and the Meiji Restoration.