对康熙的评价(国外英语资料).doc

对康熙的评价 One, about the age of Kangxi On the eve of Kangxis Accession (that is, the middle of the seventeenth Century), China and the world were at the critical juncture of the transition from the old to the new, and they were suffering from the turmoil of war and change. In the Netherlands as an example of the British bourgeois revolution finally sounded the death knell of the feudal society, the history of the world has entered the period of capitalism. The colonial expansion of European powers quickly arrived at the Chinese neighbor: Spain has occupied Philippines; Holland has control of the Indonesia striker, arrived in Japan southwest of the fan; English, French and Portuguese has set up many colonial strongholds in India and Indochina; Portugal, the Netherlands according to China Macao and Taiwan; Russian forces have into Chinas Heilongjiang basin....... This situation was both a challenge and an opportunity for the Qing Dynasty at that time. If we can use their eastward (shortened distance) for easy access and understanding of the machine, to speed up the economic and cultural exchanges, to learn advanced western technology, bold social change, will in the East and West, the gap is not too big, their focus of contention have not yet focused on Chinas situation, first built in the east of capitalist powers. Otherwise, it will inevitably become the second Philippines or Indonesia. The external situation has enabled China to change itself. In China, the feudal society was shocked by the great turmoil of the late Ming Dynasty, and it had been tottering, thus paving the way for change. First of all, the germination of capitalism in the middle of the Ming Dynasty has come into being, and to the beginning of Kangxi, is gradually growing. In the further development of handicraft industry, the scale of production, a workshop employing hundreds of people have been deceived; the buyers role has been throughout the country, large commercial capital groups have emerged, suc