The Preparation for Constitutionalism and the Drafting of Constitution in the Late Qing Dynasty

Zhang, Jinfan

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-1032-3_6

Jinfan Zhang⁷

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After the Opium War, China was threatened with a growing crisis of invasion by the western powers. Under this national situation, the enlightened ideologists and politicians began to wage up the struggle to fight against the autocratic monarchy and to pursue constitutionalism, i.e., to adopt the modern democratic politics of the western countries in an attempt to gain independence and to achieve prosperity in China.

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