大学英语资料：Chinese dream.docxVIP

Renewal of the Chinese nation has been the greatest Chinese dream in modern time since the First Opium War (1839-42).（鸦片战争） In the latter half of the 19th century, China, then under the rule of backward and corrupt feudal Qing regime （王朝）(1644-1911), was invaded by Western imperialist（帝国主义） powers. Its people lived in misery and the nation was ridiculed as the sick man of East Asia. Successive generations of Chinese people with lofty ideals rose up against invading Western powers and feudal rulers in pursuit of their dreams. Although the 1911 Revolution led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen ended more than t