BBC中国故事第六集革命时代 Part6 第二次鸦片战争后，中国对外开放

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[00:01.68]Towards the end of the Taiping, in a Second Opium War, 在太平天国末期，第二次鸦片战争中，
[00:05.95]the British and the French had forced more concessions from the Chinese - 英国和法国强迫中国给予更多的优惠--
[00:10.28]more treaty ports, eventually over 80 of them.更多的条约港口，最终超过了80座。
[00:21.40]With their banks and villas, parts of Chinese cities began to look like corners of Europe now, 随着他们新建起银行和别墅，中国城市的一些地区变得越来越像欧洲的角落了。
[00:26.51]and the infrastructure came with them - the telegraph and banking, railways and trams.接着就是基础设施的建设--如电报系统、银行系统、铁路、有轨电车。
[00:34.11]Swelled by merchants fleeing the Taiping, Shanghai was launched on its path to become the world's greatest city.随着商人们慢慢逃离太平天国，上海开启了腾飞之旅，成为世界上最了不起的城市。
[00:43.88]Behind me, the old headquarters of the HSBC - the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.在我身后，是汇丰银行的旧总部大楼--即香港和上海银行有限公司。
[00:51.43]Today, one of the richest banks in the world, but founded here in China by a British trader in 1865.如今是世界上资金最丰裕的银行之一，不过它是由一个英国商人与1865年在此创建的。
[01:01.25]So, China had begun to open up.就这样，中国开始对外开放了。
[01:03.79]But in that, lay a profound threat to the way China had seen the world for so long.但这对中国长久以来看待世界的方式产生了严重威胁。
[01:12.48]Remember this is very striking in Asia, right? 要知道这对亚洲很具有冲击性，对吧？
[01:14.83]The architecture.看这些建筑。
[01:15.55]It's almost like inserting a completely alien structural civilisation on Asian territory.简直就像在亚洲领地上植入架构完全不同的外来文明。
[01:23.36]So, it has remarkable impact, in a sense, on people's psyche.因此在某种意义上，它在精神上对人们造成极大冲击。
[01:32.29]But in the countryside, it was a very different story.不过在乡村则是另一派景象了。
[01:38.38]It is important to emphasise, actually vast parts of China is not Shanghai.必须强调，广大中国的其他部分并非像上海那样。
[01:44.20]This is the part of China that's the dominant part of China.这部分地区才在中国占主导地位。
[01:47.67]That is very important in explaining the rise of political forces.这在解释中国各方政治势力崛起时非常关键。
[01:52.63]Sparked by drought and famine, more peasant risings were flaring across the land.由干旱和饥荒所激发，更多的农民起义之火燃遍了中国大地。

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BBC中国故事 第六集 革命时代 Part6 第二次鸦片战争后，中国对外开放

BBC中国故事第六集革命时代 Part6 第二次鸦片战争后，中国对外开放