The analsis between china and capitalism 中国与列强的分析

China(before the war)

Since the early Qing Dynasty to the Opium War, China was still an independent feudal state, this powerful and prosperous country potential from the Qianlong Dynasty presents Chujiang
  First before the Opium War in China and around the situation
Kusakabe of the potential of the river. Feudal system has seriously hampered the development of new productivity. The middle of the Ming Dynasty, the seeds of capitalist development is very slow. Before the Opium War, the combination of small agriculture and cottage industries, self-sufficient economy, always occupy a dominant position in China's social and economic. The land increasingly severe mergers become a common phenomenon in the country. Corrupt officialdom, the feudal autocratic developed to the extreme. Qing government with the "Four Books", "Five Classics" to imprison people's minds on the discontent or appraisal Politics, the implementation of a brutal crackdown. Emptiness, defense and armaments of breakdowns. In foreign relations, the Qing Dynasty long-term, the isolationist policies seriously hamper China's foreign trade and socio-political and economic development.
With the increasing corruption of Qing rule and aggravated exploitation and oppression of the people, the domestic class contradictions increasing intensification of the resistance struggle of the masses of the people come and go. Faced with a deep crisis, the rule of the Qing dynasty in China's feudal society has come to its end.

Capitalism expansion(before the war)

Declining due Qing Dynasty when Britain, France, the United States national capitalism was developing rapidly. Started the industrial revolution in Britain in the 1760s and forties of the 19th century, large industrial machines gradually replaced the handicraft workshop. British industrial development, industrial production rose sharply, "the expanding needs of the market for products, driven bourgeois running around the world", trying to find new resources and products of living space.

France is a capitalist country second only to the United Kingdom, on the eve of the Opium War, the French industrial production ranks second in the world. U.S. on the eve of the Opium War of capitalist industry is not well developed, but it is on the upswing. In the 1830s, the the American bourgeois positive southern looting the land of the Indians and Mexicans, exclude the European capitalist forces in Latin America, full control of the market, therefore, not enough power in the United States in the mid-19th century infringement upon China. The United States acts as a the British invaders helper, following the British invasion of China. The 1861 Russian serfdom reform, capitalist industry and commerce is developing rapidly. Russia eyeing watching from the north of China, ready to seize the Chinese territory.

In the 1840s, the Western capitalist countries to bring the glory of the Industrial Revolution, flourishing. Competition for sources of raw materials in order to expand the commodity markets, the Western powers have stepped up to conquer colonial activities, neighboring countries and adjacent areas, in succession to become their colonies or spheres of influence. China under as the ancient the feudal Confucian enslaving Education, a vast country, naturally become the object of colonialist aggression and expansion options. .