The China Discussion And The Boxer Movement

"The China Discussion" is an important publication which was organized by Liang Chi-chao in the overseas after the Reform Movement of 1898, basically represent the modern China bourgeois reformist stance, attacked the backward conservative ideological concept, advocated strongly studied the West, studied Japan, the political reform plans to be stronger, founded the modern country. The newspaper published soon, had a large-scale the Boxer Movement in North China, then triggered the Eight-Nation Allied Army entered. As an important position "the China Discussion", as well as causes a series of domestic and international questions to the Boxer Movement to pay attention highly to this, timely reports campaign process, the standpoint bright expression to the Qing government and Boxers' dual critiques, thought that the Boxers took the foreign powers as the main target of attack was to find the wrong target, was the Chinese national's benighted performance, which later formed Liang Chi-chao's important thinking of"New-human, China's first priority today"; The author group looks like in "the China Discussion", the Chinese question's basic crux still lied in the later party for the core of the political interest group dark in the international situation, dark in diplomacy, obstructs willfully to China's reform and the progress. As for the foreign powers on China's attitude and actions, "the China Discussion" had praises and had censures, thought that the foreign powers for own benefit, would possibly force political change in China, was conducive to China national bourgeoisie growth, was conducive to China's progress and development. But the foreign powers particularly Tsarist Russia wanted to invade the Chinese territory, also caused "the China Discussion" the author group deeply worried. Attitude of "the China Discussion" to the Boxers, the Qing government and the foreign powers was complex, changing, the paper through the carding and interpretation of relevant information, generally describe the changing trends and its complex reasons and the background.