Parliament Petition Movement In The Late Qing Dynasty

In 1840, the opium war, the British gunboats isolation for a long time been opened China’s doors, to the process of modernization in China. In the process of modernization, western powers constantly reproach China, scrambling interests, reduced to the half colonial semi-feudal society in China, but the western advanced political system and democratic constitutionalism thoughts also gradually spread in China, and accepted by advanced intellectuals and enlightened officials, constitutional trend in China began to sprout. In 1905, the russo-japanese war, Japan’s victory, make more people see, national greatness is not because of the advanced craft, also is the most fundamental has advanced political system, constitutional thought, requires "constitutional" chants. In the late qing government pressure from both inside and outside, from the perspective of maintaining its own rule began an unprecedented in the history of Chinese political reform, promote constitutional monarchy, trying to achieve the goal of national greatness. Due at the beginning of the implementation of the constitutional, no sure convened congress and term, and launched a huge constitutionalists leadership national parliament petition movement, has significant impact on the political situation in late qing dynasty, because of the subjective and objective reasons for petition campaign failed, but on the Chinese education and popularize knowledge of the constitution, constitutional government opens the intelligence, to the Chinese modern democratic constitutionalism life has the vital significance.Full text altogether five parts to petition for the main line, detailed introduces the petition drive the outbreak of the background, development course, the petition of appeal, and the impact of the event to the political situation in late qing dynasty, and finally make the objective comments on the event. The first part discusses the rise in China’s constitutional thoughts and high, parliament petition movement is in this context. The second part of the movement of petition for origin, development, and their demands is introduced in detail; The movement of petition the third part analysis the positive and negative effects of politics in late qing dynasty; The fourth part has carried on the objective and fair to petition review; Five parts come to the conclusion that the summary analysis of the source of the failure of a petition and event impact on the living of Chinese democratic constitutional government.