From 1885-1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian p…
After Empire traces the formation of the modern Chinese idea of the state through the radical reform programs of the late Qing, the Revolution of 1911, and the first years of the Republic through the final expulsion of the last Qing emperor in 1924. It contributes to long-standi…
"From 1885 to 1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical shift in thought: after more than two thousand years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These four decades saw the collaps…
From 1885-1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people stopped believing in the emperor. These forty years saw the collapse of Confucian p…