Blog Assignment #5

In 1900, when China had closed the door to international intercourse and ignores the chauvinism in foreign relations in Qing Dynasty, Western perceived such a Chinese weakness.the Eight-Power Allied Forces war of aggression against China, killing thousands of Chinese, what’ s more, we ceded 4 territories, paid large losses and huge amounts of precious architectures were destroyed. They, the eight-power allied forces, had waged the war of aggression against China, gave a bitter and vivid lesson to Chinese; history told us who falling behind would suffer beating. From then on, China turned into a semi-feudal and semi-colonial ruled country. We Chinese, as loser of this War, treated this period of humiliated history like an alarm warns us that China must be strong as a rising star by our joint efforts.

When the winners of the war, that is the people from Western countries, they consider the case in a quite opposite way. They think it was them who brought the new tech and concept into China, and ever since the war, Chinese presidents proposed the policy of reform and opening up, and Chinese people began to borrow and learn advanced cultures and technologies from the outside world. Until now, China's economy has developed rapidly, and people's living standard has improved markedly; they treated as their contribution originally that help us Chinese realize all the dreams.

People speaks different words when they are in different positions, human have totally different comprehension and definition concerning value of history, either good or bad. It recalls me a sentence, “There is no definite answer to any historical problem.”