What is cultural revivalism?

Cultural retro-ism is a cultural trend of thought in modern times, which was produced in the collision between Chinese and western cultures. Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao are its main representatives.

The representative event of cultural revivalism was the Reform Movement of 1898. In the late Qing Dynasty, reformists represented by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao advocated learning from the West through Emperor Guangxu, advocating scientific culture, reforming political and educational systems, and developing bourgeois reform movements such as agriculture, industry and commerce.

The Reform Movement of 1898 was a reform movement with patriotic significance for saving the nation, an important political reform in China's modern history, and also a enlightenment thought, which promoted ideological emancipation, social progress and ideological and cultural development, and played an important role in promoting the progress of modern China society.

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The influence of later generations

As a bourgeois reform movement in modern China, the Reform Movement of 1898 was of progressive significance. Although it was strangled by Empress Dowager Cixi, it also laid the ideological foundation for the Revolution of 1911 which broke out 13 years later.

promoted the self-reform of the Qing government. When Eight-Nation Alliance invaded in 19, Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi 'an with Guangxu, which taught Cixi a painful lesson. After signing the "Xin Chou Treaty", Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the implementation of the New Deal, which included the training of new troops; Abolish the imperial examination and build a school; Reward private factories; Reform the legal system; Send five ministers to study abroad and prepare for constitutionalism; Establish an advisory board, an advisory board, etc. Some of these changes have gone beyond the content of the reform in those days.

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