For example, we always blamed the poverty in 1840-1880s for the colonization of foreign powers... People forgot about corruption and backward political /social system, they also forgot the civil war between Qing and Tai Ping.....
We chose to forget some history and then blame EVERYTHING on foreigners.... I found to my puzzlement that my African classmates also loved this tricks.......
But I just can not help wondering why Japan went through similar experience and rose up so quickly to an regional power. Why Japan even defeated Russian pacific fleet completely.
