THE MEANING OF THE ”HUMILIATION CENTURY” Cover Image

SEMNIFICAȚIA „SECOLULUI UMILINȚEI”
THE MEANING OF THE ”HUMILIATION CENTURY”

Author(s): Cristina Vohn
Subject(s): Politics, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century
Published by: EDITURA INSTITUTULUI DE ȘTIINȚE POLITICE ȘI RELAȚII INTERNAȚIONALE ”Ion I. C. Brătianu”
Keywords: Century of humiliation; China; Chinese culture; Chinese history; People’s Republic of China;

Summary/Abstract: The century of humiliation is a phrase steeped in the and mentality, which denotes the period when Western powers and Japan intervened in China. The Chinese believe that it began during the first Opium War in 1839, when England invaded southern China, and ended with the liberation of China from foreign troops and the victory of the Chinese Communists who proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in1949. The Chinese people perceive this century of humiliation as the only century in their history when China was attacked, bullied and divided by foreign powers, which affected their national dignity.

  • Issue Year: XX/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 103-109
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian
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