Author(s)

Xu Linping, Guo Xiu

Corresponding Author

Xu Linping

Abstract

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China was facing such double impacts as foreign enemy invasion and ruling order reform of feudalism. The failure of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 has made Chinese modern history enter into a vital turning period. The thesis, in the horizon of political modernization, has studied the amelioration and the revolution in the late Qing Dynasty, with the main research thinking that by basing on the Chinese social crisis outbreak at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese modernization amelioration and revolution has been discussed, and at the same time, amelioration and revolution in the late Qing Dynasty have been differentiated and analyzed in the horizon of political modernization.

Keywords

Political modernization, Amelioration in the late Qing Dynasty, The Revolution of 1911,