Embrace Civilization: Lessons from the Reforms of the Sixteen Kingdoms and Northern Dynasties

Author: Wang Yongping
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: This book provides a comprehensive comparative analysis of three reform movements in late Qing China—the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Hundred Days' Reform, and the Late Qing New Policies—through rational thinking. It reveals the three-stage journey of late Qing reforms, from spiritual confusion to pragmatic despair, in search of solutions, and profoundly uncovers the subjective and objective historical roots of their eventual failure.