Jìndài Zhōngguó chángcháng shòudào lièqiáng de qīfu.
Modern China was often bullied by the Great Powers.
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In Chinese history writing 列强 means the foreign powers that forced treaties on Qing China after the 鸦片战争: Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Japan and the United States among them. The word carries the memory of the "century of humiliation".
