/kloc-At the end of 0/9, especially after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, imperialist powers successively obtained important investment privileges in China, such as "leasing" seaports, building roads, mining, etc., divided "spheres of influence", and fiercely competed for and carved up China, which led to an unprecedented national crisis in China. This sense of crisis made people wake up, and saving the country became the most urgent requirement at that time.
On the one hand, China was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1898, and after signing treaty of shimonoseki, the ideological trend of advocating reform and reform occupied the mainstream of the ideological circle, which gave birth to the Reform Movement of 1898 (1898), but this reform soon failed.
On the other hand, under the influence of factors such as the livelihood difficulties caused by the dumping of goods by foreign powers and the frequent religious plans caused by the increasingly frequent activities of priests, the broad masses of people in China increasingly opposed and hated foreign invaders, resulting in the Boxer Movement, which put forward slogans such as "helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries", adopted universal xenophobia and was superstitious.
Main influence
The Xin Chou Treaty is an unequal treaty with the largest amount of compensation, the most serious loss of sovereignty and the deepest spiritual humiliation in China's modern history, which has brought unprecedented disasters to the people of China. It is generally believed in academic circles that the signing of the Treaty of Xin Chou marks the final formation of China's semi-colonial status.
Even think that it marks that China has completely become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. However, some scholars believe that the process of China's semi-colonization did not end with the "Xin Chou Treaty", so it is not appropriate to use the "Xin Chou Treaty" as a symbol of the formation of a semi-feudal society, or even to discuss the concept of "semi-colonial and semi-feudal society" itself.