Late Qing reforms

<h2 id="names">Names</h2>
<p>In China, the reform is most commonly known as New Policies of the late Qing dynasty (清末新政), and is also called Gengzi New Policies (庚子新政), Post-Gengzi New Policies (庚子后新政). After the fall of the Qing dynasty, in the Republic of China, it was called "Shame-covering reforms" (遮羞变法). In <a href="/facts/Hong_Kong/4nAf3mqQ">Hong Kong</a>, it was called Late Qing reforms (晚清改革), and in <a href="/facts/Japan/U5mz0SRT">Japan</a>, it was called the Guangxu's New Policies, in reference to <a href="/facts/Guangxu_Emperor/MddJhbxj">Emperor Guangxu</a> (光绪新政).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="politics">Politics</h2>
<p>In April 1901, the Qing dynasty established the Administration Office to supervise the overall plan for reform, appointing <a href="/facts/Ronglu/NI9dDg9R">Ronglu</a>, <a href="/facts/Yikuang/4kWlBnSM">Yikuang</a> and <a href="/facts/Li_Hongzhang/vYLYLtjp">Li Hongzhang</a> as managers, nominating <a href="/facts/Zhang_Zhidong/lw5gYG65">Zhang Zhidong</a> and <a href="/facts/Liu_Kunyi/IHyn382o">Liu Kunyi</a> as coordinators. Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi jointly submitted "Three folds for reform" to the imperial government, which includes setting reform direction, learning from Japan and transitioning to a <a href="/facts/Constitutional_monarchy/C0TtVRq8">constitutional monarchy</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a>
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<h3>Five ministers went abroad to investigate</h3>
<p>On January 19, 1904, <a href="/facts/Viceroy_of_Yun-Gui/9HJ4IqqC">viceroy of Yun-Gui</a> Ding Zhenduo and Yunnan provincial Patrol Lin Shaonian submitted the application for political reform to the imperial government. At the beginning of the July, Viceroy of Liangjiang Zhou Wei asked for the implementation of the "separation of the three powers" political system.
</p><p>On July 2, 1905, <a href="/facts/Yuan_Shikai/BNWyBuB5">Yuan Shikai</a> joined with Zhou Wei and <a href="/facts/Viceroy_of_Huguang/qma1750c">viceroy of Huguang</a> Zhang Zhidong to request the imperial government to implement a constitutional government over a twelve-year period. They also asked the government to assign ministers to go abroad to investigate various political formats.
</p><p>On September 24, 1905, Empress Dowager Cixi decided to assign five ministers:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> Zhen Prince Zaize, Financial Minister Dai Hongci, Military Minister <a href="/facts/Xu_Shichang/zdoX8zrJ">Xu Shichang</a>, Governor of Hunan <a href="/facts/Duanfang/q2XruQfI">Duanfang</a> and Prime Minister of Business Department Shaoying to go abroad. On November 25, the imperial government set up a special institution "Inspection of the political pavilion" to study the constitutional government of each country, and provide guidance on constitutional reform.
</p><p>In the same year, on December 7, the first group led by Dai Hongci and Duanfang set off at the first stop,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> the United States, and was met by the US President <a href="/facts/Theodore_Roosevelt/WzUPbcbo">Theodore Roosevelt</a>. On January 14, 1906, the second group led by Zaize set out. At the end of summer, 1906, the delegation returned to China and submitted a report arguing that “The only way for the state to be powerful is constitutionalism”.
</p><p>On September 1, 1906, the Empress Dowager Cixi promulgated an imperial decree, announcing <a href="/facts/Preparative_Constitutionalism/AaflFoTq">preparatory imitation of constitution</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a>
</p><p>In 1907, the preparatory office of the Zizhengyuan Institute (Parliament) was established, and Ming Lun and Sun Jiaxuan were appointed as the presidents of the Zizhengyuan Institute. Later, Zhang Jiang and Tang Shouqian established a preparatory constitutional guild in Shanghai.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> After that, various constitutional guilds were established in major cities all around China.
</p><p>In August 1908, the imperial government published the "Constitutional Outline",<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> "The list of Preparations in next few years", and three appendices including "Civil Rights and Obligations", "The essentials of Parliament", "Election Law Essentials". These proposed laws regulated that the provincial advisory council and <a href="/facts/Advisory_Council_(Qing_dynasty)/pbYxWk1a">Central Advisory Council</a> would be elected in the next year and the constitution was plan to prepared in nine years. On November 14, 1908, the Emperor Guangxu died, with Empress Dowager Cixi dying the following day.
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<p>In 1909, the Qing government held <a href="/facts/1909_Chinese_parliamentary_election/h1CCW2ds">parliamentary elections</a> to the <a href="/facts/Advisory_Council_(Qing_dynasty)/pbYxWk1a">Advisory Council</a> and <a href="/facts/1909_Chinese_provincial_elections/6SWGhafN">provincial elections</a>.
</p><p>In 1909, after <a href="/facts/Pu_Yi/FIxMNgoI">Pu Yi</a>, the last emperor of the Qing dynasty, succeeded to the throne, the provincial advisory councils were elected. In 1910, the Zizheng Institute held its first opening ceremony.
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<p>In May 1911, the prince regent <a href="/facts/Zaifeng/3EgNPDxw">Zaifeng</a> appointed <a href="/facts/Yikuang/4kWlBnSM">Yikuang, Prince Qing</a> as the <a href="/facts/Prime_Minister_of_the_Imperial_Cabinet/lvHWjsfJ">Prime Minister of the Imperial Cabinet</a> to organize the new cabinet.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> The head of the <a href="/facts/Prince_Qing%2527s_Cabinet/4frWIYdf">new cabinet</a> had 13 members, including eight Manchurians, four Han Chinese, and one Mongolian. As seven of the Manchurians belonged to the royal family, the cabinet was known as a "royal cabinet".
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<h3>Local administrative reform</h3>
<p>In 1902, Shanxi governor <a href="/facts/Zhao_Erxun/9cpngRIn">Zhao Erxun</a> proposed to reform the local administrative reforms such as the Baojia system, including the establishment of the modern police system and the expansion of local organizational functions.
</p><p>In 1907, the local official system was promulgated, and the financial power and military power of the governor were reduced. The Ministry of Civil Affairs owned the function of the national patrol.
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<h3>Local autonomy reform measures</h3>
<p>In 1906, Yuan Shikai had already established the local “Autonomous Research Institute” and the Tianjin County Council in Tianjin.
In 1908, the imperial government also began to set up autonomous research institutes in the urban area, and draft the "Regulations of the Provincial Consultative Councils", which was scheduled to be completed in 1914.
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<h2 id="military">Military</h2>
<h3>Officer training</h3>

<p>In 1901, the imperial government abolished the test of traditional Chinese Martial and founded the training system for officers. Then, in 1903, the Central Training Command was established to coordinate the training of the national army.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a>
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<h3>Ordnance</h3>
<p>In 1901, the imperial government established three arsenals in Hanyang, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.
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<h3>Army</h3>

<p>In 1905, the <a href="/facts/Beiyang_Army/anstvHAp">Beiyang Army</a> was reorganized into a <a href="/facts/New_Army/v93JWHe4">New Army</a>. The imperial government originally planned to establish 500,000 regular troops in the next ten years, but until the end of 1911 (the collapse of the Qing dynasty), only about 190,000 troops had been well trained.
</p><p>An edict on 15 July 1909 was passed that established the Ministry of War to control the army.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a>
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<h4>The Report of 1904</h4>
<p>A report in the summer of 1904 by the Commission for Army reorganisation published a lengthy plan for the reorganisation of the army. The report called for the regular dispatch of central government officials to the provinces to actually check that imperial decrees were being followed something which was not the case previously. In a concession to the provinces the new armies were to be controlled by the provinces and raised by them but ultimately responsible to the throne and used by the throne when necessary. The 8 banners were not included in the program of reform notably. The report highlighted the need for specialised officers that were educated as well as officers in the staff role and in the frontline role with a preference for academy-trained personnel. The pay of officers was to be increased to cover their cost of living and reduce the need for officers to indulge in corruption to cover their own costs with harsher punishments for corruption. Officers were given detailed regulations and were expected to lead their men, not their drill instructors, who due to the lack of qualified officers were often employed to instruct the men. The officers therefore were useless in battle and the men had no faith in their officers. The officers were therefore expected to instruct their men. The recruits themselves were to have a literacy rate of 20% along with promotion and demotion being introduced. These literate men were to form the NCOs of the army. A system of pensions and rewards left unenforced since 1737 was to be introduced again in a new manner with rewards for bravery and service, including pensions for the retired, dead and disabled. A western-style system of medical and logistical services was also recommended from the frontline to base hospitals in the interior. The report also called for the standardisation of weapons on a simple durable but modern model of weaponry. The army itself was divided into 3 categories as per the western standard firstly, the standing army then the first-class reserves then the second-class reserves the regulars would serve for 3 years then they would return home and be enrolled in the first reserve for a further 3 years then 4 years in the 2nd reserve with decreasing pay and training per level of service.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a>
</p><p>The report also called for a new table of organisation the basic organisation was a corps of 2 divisions with each division containing a staff 2 brigades of infantry 1 regiment each of cavalry and artillery 1 battalion each of engineers and transportation men as well as a band. The authorised strength of a division was 748 officers and 10,436 NCOs and privates with 1,328 support staff for 12,512, each corp was to possess 1,595 officers, 23,760 enlisted men, 4,469 horses and mules and 108 <a href="/facts/Artillery/GLpMYG9o">guns</a>. It was estimated that each corp would cost 2,778,222 taels per corps or 1,300,000 per division. With 36 divisions this would amount to a minimum expense of 50,000,000 taels annually on the new army.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a>
</p><p>A new pay scale was also introduced with monthly payments of 1600 taels for a corps commander, 1000 taels for a division commander, 500 taels for a brigade commander. 400 taels for a regimental commander, 180-260 taels for a battalion commander, 58-64 taels for a company commander, 25 taels for Lieutenants, 5.1 taels for sergeants, 4.8 taels for corporals, 4.5 taels for first-class privates, 4.2 taels for privates, 3.3 taels for supernumeraries.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a>
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<h3>Navy</h3>

<p>In 1902, <a href="/facts/Beiyang_Fleet/ykkl6nBD">Beiyang Fleet</a> officer <a href="/facts/Sa_Zhenbing/phMB1lWX">Sa Zhenbing</a> proposed four methods for reviving the <a href="/facts/Imperial_Chinese_Navy/NN4ktTHD">Imperial Chinese Navy</a>. First, sending naval officers to study in Japan. Second, setting up a naval school in Jiangyin. Third, building Mawei Shipyard as a ship repair base.  Fourth, setting up a naval guard town in Yantai and Fuzhou.
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<h2 id="other-aspects">Other aspects</h2>
<p>The policies reformed almost every aspect of governmental affairs:
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<ul><li>In education, traditional academies became western-style schools, abolishing the <a href="/facts/Imperial_examination/y4qmBl6V">imperial examinations</a>, and various textbooks were published throughout the country.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> Each province established a military academy.</li>
<li>A new code and judicial system came in law. The system of fiscal control and tax collection expanded and regularized, an especially important task since the <a href="/facts/Boxer_Indemnity/9AjKmp2B">Boxer Indemnity</a> required payments to foreign powers which exceeded the annual income of the national government.</li>
<li>Local and regional police forces were organized, with model prisons opened.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a></li>
<li>Foreign affairs. The foreign affair office was established in 1901, to replace the former Zongli Yamen.</li></ul>
<h2 id="evaluation">Evaluation</h2>
<p>The impact of these reforms varied from place to place. Many regions were virtually unchanged, while the provinces in the lower Yangzi valley had already taken the lead. The province of <a href="/facts/Zhili/CgXaW6fA">Zhili</a> (roughly present day <a href="/facts/Hebei/Hra1DggH">Hebei</a>) was a model. With the strong support of the Empress Dowager, <a href="/facts/Yuan_Shikai/BNWyBuB5">Yuan Shikai</a> set up a strong bureaucracy to administer tax collection, local schools and police.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a>
</p><p>However, there is still debate among the academic community regarding the actual effect that these reforms had on the Chinese people, historian <a href="/facts/Immanuel_C._Y._Hsu/33s9guKe">Immanuel Hsü</a> claiming that, apart from the successes in "...the abolition of the civil service examinations… the establishment of modern schools… and the sending of students abroad…”,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> the reforms were "…essentially a noisy demonstration without much substance or promise of accomplishment…".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> However, other historians, such as Diana Preston, place much greater weight on the influence of these reforms on the later development of China in its progression towards a more 'developed' society, contending that "…the events of 1900 and their aftermath precipitated reforms that, albeit late [and] grudging, were far-reaching and laid the foundations for a modern state…".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a>
</p><p>On 22 July 1908 the Qing government issued the <a href="/facts/Principles_of_the_Constitution_(1908)/SxoqCdXy">Principles of the Constitution</a>, modeled on the Japanese <a href="/facts/Meiji_Constitution/tHTSd7tc">Meiji Constitution</a>, which provided for gradual introduction of an electoral system beginning with local elections in 1908, followed in two years by elections for provincial legislatures, then two years later, elections for a national assembly. Special bureaus were set up in each province to prepare for setting up assemblies, directly subordinated to the provincial governor and consisting of scholars and gentry. They set up regulations for carrying out the elections, a timetable for carrying them out, and notices. The first to hold elections for the provincial assembly was the <a href="/facts/Jiangsu/PYdTsg5R">Jiangsu</a> province, in 1909, and elections occurred on time in all provinces except for <a href="/facts/Xinjiang/f3jxW5Sq">Xinjiang</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a>
</p><p>The New Policies also resulted in drastic change of the Manchu policy toward <a href="/facts/Mongolia/ogQzUcQb">Mongolia</a> from a relatively conservative-protective one to an aggressive-colonial one.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> Also, after the <a href="/facts/British_expedition_to_Tibet/SpnudWrH">British expedition to Tibet</a> in 1904 and the <a href="/facts/Convention_Between_Great_Britain_and_China_Respecting_Tibet/IUmbYwU5">Sino-British treaty in 1906</a>, Qing China sent the <a href="/facts/Chinese_expedition_to_Tibet_(1910)/qcR9DYd2">1910 expedition to Tibet</a> for establishing direct rule over Tibet.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a>
</p><p>The New Policies are judged now[<i>by whom?</i>] to have been a substantive beginning for China's reorganization which was destroyed after the death of the Dowager Empress in 1908 by the intransigent stand of conservative Manchus in the Qing court.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Self-Strengthening_Movement/op5hkaRw">Self-Strengthening Movement</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Hundred_Days%2527_Reform/Lt0H5WYR">Hundred Days' Reform</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/New_Army/v93JWHe4">New Army</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Preparative_Constitutionalism/AaflFoTq">Preparative Constitutionalism</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Mongolia_under_Qing_rule/jJDSFMk5">Mongolia under Qing rule</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Tibet_under_Qing_rule/K0dyn0NE">Tibet under Qing rule</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/1911_Revolution/lCnPzBWo">1911 Revolution</a></li></ul>

<h3>Citations</h3>

<h3>Sources</h3>

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<li>MacKinnon, Stephen R. (1980). <i>Power and Politics in Late Imperial China: Yuan Shi-kai in Beijing and Tianjin, 1901–1908</i>. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-520-04025-0.</li>
<li>Reynolds, Douglas (1993). <i>China, 1898–1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan</i>. Cambridge, MA: Council on East Asian Studies Harvard University: Distributed by Harvard University Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-674-11660-3.{{cite book}}:  CS1 maint: publisher location (link)</li>
<li>Rhoads, Edward J. M. (2000). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OXQkDwAAQBAJ"><i>Manchus & Han : Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928</i></a>. Seattle: University of Washington Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0295979380.</li>
<li>Shan, Patrick Fuliang (2018). <i>Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal</i>. The University of British Columbia Press. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780774837781.</li></ul>

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