Industrial Age · East Asia · Politics

1898

Hundred Days Reform Fails

September 21, 1898

After a hundred days of frantic modernizing edicts by the young Guangxu Emperor - on railways, schools, exams, everything - the Dowager Empress Cixi emerged from retirement, placed the emperor under house arrest in a Forbidden City pavilion, and executed his reformers. China's chance at Meiji-style top-down change had, for this generation, just died.

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Before and after in East Asia

Before: August 16, 1895: Queen Min Assassinated
After: September 6, 1899: Open Door Notes

Before and after in Politics

Before: August 29, 1897: First Zionist Congress
After: May 18, 1899: First Hague Convention

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.