Overview
Details events of the world at large and China before 1840. This includes the First Opium War and the post-war semi-colonizing process of Chinese society; various periods of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; the Second Opium War; continuation of the Chinese People's resistance against feudalism and aggression after the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the gradual semi-colonization of the Qing Dynasty; aggression of the foreign powers into Southeast, Southwest and Northwest China in the 1870s and the Sino-French War; rise of Chinese modern industry and emergence of new classes; continuation of the Chinese's struggle against aggression; early ideological, intellectual and cultural advancements of bourgeoisie reformism; and the Sino-Japanese War of 1894.
