Empress Dowager With The Beginning And Turning Of New Policy Reform Of Late Qing

Empress Dowager had the prominent position on the Chinese ModernHistory. The political power that she controlled the Qing Dynasty amounted to48 years, and she experienced successively the important history affairs, suchas the Coup Hundred Days of Reform, New Policy Reform of Late Qing...etc.When Empress Dowager was ruling Qing Dynasty, she faced complicated ofdomestic and international situation, so she must proceed to reform to saveQing Dynasty and nationality crisis. At the same time, when she dealed withthe situation of Qing Dynasty 's difficulty of both the interior and exterior,Empress Dowager's character, power desire, conservative enlightenedsimultaneity, for example, had importance influence to the way of measure .After the coup of 1900, Empress Dowager's concept to Hesperian had acertain degree's change, and also she was ashamed and uneasy to her peopleand country, as well as she had the thought of self-renewal to wipe out hershame. These complicated psychology urged to Empress Dowager to start NewPolicy Reform of Late Qing. In the New Policy, Empress Dowager's intentionwas steadiness, and she adopted minister's ideas of reform. Because of this,New Policy Reform of late Qing Dynasty was carried out preferably.Around about 1905, because of New Policy Reform's limitations, turbulentsituations of at home, Empress Dowager sent a delegation to go abroad on a tourof politics investigation , Afterwards she determined to execute the preparation ofconstitutionalism, promulgated General Principals of Constitutional Law, declarednine years of prearrangement. Before empress dowager died, the preparation ofconstitutionalism gradually had the substance contents, and it jumped out therestrict of ruler.Though Empress Dowager couldn't extricate Qing Dynasty from adifficult position, and she also couldn't free China from the sufferings of semicolonial society, she took charge of New Policy Reform and directed it to headfor constitutionalism. She contributed to Qing Dynasty's reform, so she playeda positive role for China's early modernization.