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朝贡制度曾是中国历代王朝处理民族关系和对外关系的主要模式,但是,自1840年鸦片战争开始,朝贡制度逐渐退出历史舞台,并为近代外交制度所取代。朝贡制度的终结,是中外朝贡关系和宗藩体制瓦解的必然结果。而近代外交翻度的建立,则是在中外实力对比发生变化的情况下,清朝统治者从自身利益考虑出发被迫作出的选择。
The system of tributaries was the main mode of dealing with ethnic relations and foreign relations in previous dynasties in China. However, since the Opium War in 1840, the tributary system gradually withdrawn from the historical arena and was replaced by the modern diplomatic system. The end of the tributary system is the inevitable result of the disintegration of the tributary relations between the tribes and tribes both in China and abroad. The establishment of modern diplomacy is the choice forced by the Qing rulers from the consideration of their own interests under the change of the balance of power between China and other countries.