The Last Eighteen Years of the Late Qing Dynasty: from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 to 1911 Revolution 2

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 reform effort ended in a palace coup, and the original intention of learning from the West unknowingly became a tool for careerists - Reform is a consensus, the biggest benefit cake of the late Qing Dynasty, and a duel ground for factional politics. Whether it is the Empress Dowager Cixi, the royalists, the Manchu dignitaries, or the pro-Western forces and the Boxers, everyone is involved in it and takes turns to appear. In the end, the Eight-Power Allied Forces came to Beijing under the guise of protecting the embassy. The turbulent and chaotic situation of the Qing Dynasty was finally reshuffled, with some people being eliminated and others taking over.