The late Qing political consultative assembly: impeaching the officials of the Grand Council
<p>The final decade of the Qing regime (1644–1911) is often portrayed in a light of inevitable corruption and decline, with a dying imperial court bowing out to a brighter republican future. My dissertation joins a body of literature in challenging this conception, revealing that between 1901...
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| description | <p>The final decade of the Qing regime (1644–1911) is often portrayed in a light of inevitable corruption and decline, with a dying imperial court bowing out to a brighter republican future. My dissertation joins a body of literature in challenging this conception, revealing that between 1901 and 1911, China was transformed by a wave of legal, educational, and political reforms. I focus on a 1910 attempt to impeach the emperor’s closest advisors, the Grand Council (Junjichu), by members of a provisional parliament, the Political Consultative Assembly (Zizhengyuan). Through numerical and qualitative analysis, I establish that a small but influential faction of Japanese-educated assembly members made impeachment possible, by playing mutually conducive functional roles and deploying two distinct but complementary models of constitutional monarchy. Though impeachment was ultimately unsuccessful, I argue that the assembly’s threats to impeach did have a considerable impact on the imperial court’s decisions. More generally, the willingness of both sides to play by constitutional rules reflect the depth and substance of the 1901–11 reforms.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b07477c6-8f27-4f31-8dcf-38d8cb01552c2022-03-27T03:56:37ZThe late Qing political consultative assembly: impeaching the officials of the Grand CouncilThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_bdccuuid:b07477c6-8f27-4f31-8dcf-38d8cb01552cQing Dynasty (China)East Asian HistoryEnglishORA Deposit2019Yeung, SChard, R<p>The final decade of the Qing regime (1644–1911) is often portrayed in a light of inevitable corruption and decline, with a dying imperial court bowing out to a brighter republican future. My dissertation joins a body of literature in challenging this conception, revealing that between 1901 and 1911, China was transformed by a wave of legal, educational, and political reforms. I focus on a 1910 attempt to impeach the emperor’s closest advisors, the Grand Council (Junjichu), by members of a provisional parliament, the Political Consultative Assembly (Zizhengyuan). Through numerical and qualitative analysis, I establish that a small but influential faction of Japanese-educated assembly members made impeachment possible, by playing mutually conducive functional roles and deploying two distinct but complementary models of constitutional monarchy. Though impeachment was ultimately unsuccessful, I argue that the assembly’s threats to impeach did have a considerable impact on the imperial court’s decisions. More generally, the willingness of both sides to play by constitutional rules reflect the depth and substance of the 1901–11 reforms.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Qing Dynasty (China) East Asian History Yeung, S The late Qing political consultative assembly: impeaching the officials of the Grand Council |
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