【中國直郵】 中國圖書 晚清十八年

The Jiawu naval battle ended in a disastrous defeat, and the Westernization Movement ended in failure. The Westernizers lost power, and the Reformists, under the slogan of "seeking strength through reform," launched an unprecedented reform movement. However, various factions, driven by vested interests, secretly competed, and the reform ultimately ended in a palace coup. The initial intention of learning from the West and saving the nation was unknowingly turned into a tool for ambitious individuals. Reform was a consensus, but the ultimate goal was to redistribute the interests of the late Qing Dynasty through reform, and more intense factional struggles unfolded in successive reforms, leading to the gradual paralysis of the Qing Dynasty. Whether it was Empress Dowager Cixi, Yuan Shikai, Li Hongzhang, the Bảo Hoàng Đảng, the Manchu nobility, pro-Western forces, the Reformists, the Constitutionalists, or the revolutionaries, and even the Boxers from the common people, all were caught up in it, rising and falling in the vortex of power. And no matter who stepped into the center of power, they would invariably transform into a force – a vested interest group, participating in the life-and-death struggle between various forces, ultimately leading to a mutual destruction, and the feudal dynasty would also come to an end with the collapse of the Qing Dynasty...
Open this book to understand why the Beiyang Navy repeatedly suffered defeats and was isolated in the Jiawu War, why the Wuxu Reform ended in the Wuxu Coup, why Cixi used the Boxers to attack the great powers and then joined forces with them to suppress the Boxers, why Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai and others repeatedly resisted Cixi's imperial edicts to "protect the emperor and save the capital," why Cixi stopped the Wuxu Reform and then launched the late Qing reforms and constitutionalism, why Yuan Shikai was both a promoter of reform and a key figure in the downfall of the Qing Dynasty, and why the "patriotic railway" in the eyes of Prince Zaifeng, the helmsman of the "Imperial Clan Cabinet," became the last straw that crushed the Qing Dynasty... From the eighteen-year game and decisive battle between reformers, conservatives, and international forces, see through the power structure and collapse logic of the late Qing Dynasty.