The Last Eighteen Years of the Late Qing Dynasty 1

About This Novel

This book is the first volume in a series of the same name. It begins with Yuan Shikai's deeds on the eve of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894, and ends with the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898 in October 1898, when Cixi seized power and China reached a crossroads in history. After the disastrous defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, the Westernizationist Li Hongzhang lost power, and the reformist Kang Youwei came to power. However, the attempt to strengthen the country by reform ended in a palace coup. The original intention of learning from the West unknowingly became a tool for careerists. Reform was the consensus, the biggest benefit cake of the late Qing Dynasty, and it was also the duel ground of factional politics. Whether it is the Empress Dowager Cixi, Yuan Shikai, Li Hongzhang, royalists, Manchu dignitaries, or pro-Western forces and reformists, everyone is involved and takes turns to appear. Regardless of whether they are Westernizers or reformers, conservatives or reformers, constitutionalists or revolutionaries, as long as they step into the center of power, they will without exception be transformed into a force - a vested interest group. The self-rescue reform ultimately paved the way for the changes in the late Qing Dynasty in which various forces and interest groups fought life and death and eventually perished together.

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