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Reform Of The Political System In Late Qing (1901-1911)

Posted on:2015-11-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y R LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330431498862Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary History
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1901-1911reform of the political system in late Qing is a more comprehensive reform of thegovernment during the last decade carried out. In all aspects of political, military, education, economy andsocial life, to a large extent the reform of the old feudal system. Its purpose is to perpetuate the rule of thegovernment in jeopardy, but due to its own limitations as well as the social impact of various factors of thegovernment, the political system ultimately failed late Qing and the dynasty come to an end because thereform. After more than a century, in order to understand the whole process of this reform, we must startfrom the following aspects: background reform, major reform initiatives, causes failure of the reform andthe impact of the reform cause.The first is the context of reform. The main driving force for political reform from the late QingDynasty in the current international and domestic environment. Internationally, in the continuing impact ofglobalization, no country can be spared, in order not to be the Western colonial powers, reform can onlyattempt to self-reliance; country, the Western world has not only advanced the incoming objects, moreadvanced system and ideology, domestic reforms and revolutionary voice rising. The Qing government inorder to extend their rule, in order to appease the voice of the revolution, reform can only choose this road.The second is a major initiative for reform. Major initiatives include the late Qing political reformannounced several important aspects of constitutional reform Bureaucracy, education, military, and legal.Sought to reform the old feudal system, the completion of the transition to the modern state.The third is the reason of reform failure. Reasons for the failure of the late Qing Dynasty politicalreform there are many, the most important is the lack of confidence in all sectors of society, the lack ofstrong central leadership, the lack of clear direction of reform, so that the reform of the lack of top-leveldesign and unified deployment, making the reform initiatives did not go hand in hand to create synergy.Final, the impact of the reform. Political reform of the late Qing Dynasty Chinese society at that timehad a profound impact, mainly reflected in: the birth of the emergence of new social strata of Chinesesociety’s; improves all levels of Chinese society and political participation; worsen the living conditions ofChinese people in the bottom. Meanwhile late Qing political reform after China also had a profoundimpact on society: Chinese society until the1937provincial warlords and military rule and political chaosin modern China.Reform of the political system in late Qing, gave birth to the20th century Chinese society new life:the emergence of a new social class, the new social trend of widespread, the popularity of the new mode ofproduction lifestyle etc.; late Qing political reform, but also makes the old social structure trends indisintegration: the emergence of warlordism, chaos social order, the farmers become displaced and so on,so that the whole community showing disintegration of the state. All this constitutes a background picture of the Chinese revolution of the20th century, from the break to set up, from chaos to order, and thepolitical system in the sense of a new era opened the curtain.
Keywords/Search Tags:The late Qing Dynasty, the political system, reform
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