THE PROCESS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE MODERNIZATION

China's modernization was a long-term evolutionary Process. The process originated shortly after the opium war. 1840-1842. From then on, to the Birth of the People's Republic of China. It had gone through six stages. Which were the Internal Fermenting. the initial Germinating. The General Blooming, the Positive Pursuing, the Special Transition and the Decisive Battle on Roads. Every Stage was liking not only a progressive spiral but also a close connecting chain.China' modernization has several distinctive characteristics. Such as the beginning was later. The initial driving came from outside. The process was tortuous and changeable, and the completion had no chance avoiding the radical Revolution of Nationalism and Democracy. etc.