Chronicles of the Late Qing Dynasty: the Fission of the Empire

The sky in the late Qing Dynasty was filled with clouds and was swaying with wind and rain. The ancient empire is in pain and confusion in the mysterious world. Empress Dowager Cixi launched a coup and imprisoned Guangxu; Kangliang fled; the Boxer Rebellion swept the north; Western forces competed for their interests in China. All forces engage in a life-and-death game. With concise and expressive writing style and detailed and accurate historical materials, the novel originally presents the great changes that lasted for thirteen years from 1898 to 1900 in the late Qing Dynasty. The original appearance presents the situation in which the building is about to collapse and collapse in the late Qing Dynasty. It shows the embarrassment of the country's important ministers and elites who are struggling to make up for the loss but are short of resources, and deeply touches the bone-breaking pain of the nation's efforts to save itself from internal and external troubles. Writer Li Keding's ambition is to enter the historical scene. In the novel, he can not only experience the turbulent waves in the political whirlpool of the late Qing Dynasty, but also be able to calmly examine the operation of the bureaucratic machine under the thousand-year-old autocratic system from a modern perspective; he can not only sympathize with the confusion and rush in the transformation of the old and the new, but also be as precise and sharp as a surgeon, cutting straight to the point and drawing blood. Some critics believe that this is a long historical novel that emphasizes objectivity and accuracy, abandons exaggeration, and has a scientific spirit. In a sense, this book can be read as a "quasi-faithful history".