“近代史”与“近代化”这两个概念虽然只有一字之差,但却有本质的区别。同时,它们之间又有着密切的联系。中国近代史开始于1840年中英鸦片战争爆发,结束于1949年新中国成立,历经清王朝晚期、中华民国临时政府时期、北洋军阀时期和国民政府时期,是中国半殖民地半封建社会从逐渐形成到日趋瓦解的历史。这一百多年的历史可以分为两个发展阶段:旧民主主义 Although the two concepts of “modern history” and “modernization” are only one word difference, they are essentially different. At the same time, there is a close connection between them. The modern Chinese history began in 1840 when the Sino-British Opium War broke out and ended in the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Through the late Qing Dynasty, the Provisional Government of the Republic of China, the Northern Warlord Period, and the Nationalist Government, it was the gradual formation of the Chinese semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The history of the gradual collapse. This one-hundred-year history can be divided into two stages of development: old democracy