In 1840, the Opium War woke up all Chinese people. And have you ever thought about what was happening around China before that in the prosperous Kangxi and Qianlong dynasties of Princess Huanzhu, Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain, and Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace, where flowers bloomed like brocade? Don't we feel anything when the world changes? Did the Industrial Revolution happen overnight? Where did the British sell opium to China? Why does Canada have a French-speaking area? Kangxi was the same age as Newton, and the accomplished but corrupt and domineering Marshal Fukang'an was born in the same era as John, a commoner in London. Napoleon was still more than ten years younger than them. Through the courtyard wall at the roof of the world, the cold wind of the modern world blew over. Whether the time-travelers have succeeded is something that cannot be simply evaluated by history, and I don't know the answer either.
At the same time as "the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong", the tentacles of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets were outflanking from all directions, revealing the chill of the modern world from the other side of the roof of the world: the Qing Dynasty Pill