Change in Crisis: Radicalism and Conservatism in Late Qing Politics
by Xiao Gongqin
About This Novel
This book is the representative work of the famous scholar Xiao Gongqin. It focuses on China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and explores how a series of reforms in the late Qing Dynasty failed under the dual pressure of Western challenges and national crises. Why did the empire, which was in a major crisis, devote itself to reform only after nearly 60 years of continuous impact from Western challenges? Why did China not transform into a modern country after the Westernization Movement, and why the Qing government could not avoid the demise of the Qing government after the Reform Movement of 1898 and the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty? What contradictions and dilemmas will the changes in the era of crisis and the game between radical and conservative encounter? In fact, delayed reforms will inevitably lead to immature revolutions. Although in the eyes of later generations, the Revolution of 1911 had great significance in overthrowing the imperial system, China has since fallen into a "weak state" state that lasted for decades. The subsequent cabinet crisis in the early Republic of China, the second revolution, warlord separatism, and the increasing fragmentation of the unified country can all be explained by the failure of the reforms in the late Qing Dynasty...
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