Why didn’t China undergo widespread industrialization?

Question

during the Opium War and the Boxer Rebellion...

Answer 1

To understand this question's answer, a little background on China as a political entity is necessary. China's massive population, even today, encompasses over 30 different languages, and distinct ethnic groups, each with traditions and mores distinct one from another.
At the times you ask about, lack of internal communications, a large population with a very small arable land area suitable for food production, and strife rampant in every level of political factions, combined with a limited technological base and transportation infrastrcture primative and limited in the extreme,
China was berift of Capital economics and ability to enter the world economy at the time.Limited natural resources are still a large problem for the Chinese today, and with little in the way of trade to offer the rest of the world, and no money or markets in the population with the ability to afford imported goods, left China 'stranded' intellectually and economically through to the slow erosion of Mao's 'Cultural Revolution'.
Industrialization on a wide scale has only happend in the last 30 years, from a global stand point.
This short note may help point you to more in depth answers, and hope you find it helpful.

Answer 2

probably because it went to isolation???

Answer 3

cause they hated westerners and their western ideas.