Research on the Opium War and Its Influence from the Perspective of Confrontation between Chinese and Western Culture

摘要

The struggle between Chinese and Western culture originated in the late Qing Dynasty, and the Opium War was the key point. From the perspective of confrontation between Chinese and western culture, this paper analyzed the origins of the opium war, including the conflict of Chinese sense and world awareness, the conflict of backward technology and advanced science and the conflict of dictatorial system and democratic system. At the same time, the Opium War was an epoch-making event, which makes Chinese culture form the world awareness, science thought and democracy concept.