Cen Chunxuan And The Reform In The Late Qing Dynasty(1901-1907)

The Reform is the Qing government to avert the crisis and the self-help movement. As a late Qing Dynasty official and a constitutional allocation bureaucracy, Cen Chunxuan complied with the historical trend and participate actively in the Reform. He do away with the old and set up the new, reform the agriculture, industry, policing, education etc in Shanxi, Sichuan, Guangdong and Guangxi. He participated in the late Qing preparatory constitutional actively and promoted the local economic development and social progress. He had made important contributions for in-depth development of the Constitutional Movement.This article will take Cen Chunxuan from 1901 to 1907 in the end of the reform activities and the action as a master line, take the publication magazine as the main reference, to examine and reappear him how to comply with the current situation in the turbulent end of the Qing flood tide, impel the historical development, thus it will be helpful to us understands Cen Chunxuan.My article is composed of the following parts:Introduction will mainly expound the value and the significance of this article, the achievements related to this subject in China, as well as the research key that the article will pay attention to. On the foundation of these, I will elucidate the methods and tenet aim in this article.First section is on Cen Chunxuan and the reform. This part will mainly discuss Cen Chunxuan's three experiences and three transformations before the reform. These experiences cause him to transform by a playboy into the government official, into the Constitutionalism Faction bureaucrat and the imperial inspector finally. When Cen Chunxuan marched into the imperial inspector ranks, the Qing government impelled the reform exactly at the same time. This will explain the reasons that he participated in the reform were not only the external factor, but also his own transformation.Second section is about promoting the development of agriculture, industry and commerce. The part will inspect mainly that Cen Chunxuan promotes development of agriculture in Shanxi, that he sets up the Advised Bureau in Sichuan and that sets up the Running Water Company in Guangdong and Guangdong General Chamber of Commerce. We will realize that Cen Chunxuan's economical measure was the result which was impelled by the Qing government and inevitability which he attached importance to livelihood of the people. Third section is about organizing the police. The main content is that Cen Chunxuan ran police schools and organized the police in Sichuan, and developed the police in Guangdong. We will realize that Organizing and developing the police was the seasonable action. But these had the certain function to improve the social convention. His thought of the police had the certain model significance in impelling the police standardization at that time.Fourth section is about setting up modern education. The part will inspect that Cen Chunxuan set up the Shanxi University Which the China and the West combines and developed the modern education, impelled the modern education in Guangdong that is the most remarkable. Cen Chunxuan's awareness to the importance of education had his own reasons, as well as the results the Qing government promoted.Fifth section is about participating in and promoting the constitutionalism. Firstly, the article will inspect the source of Cen Chunxuan's constitutional thinking and he impelled the Qing government to carry out the preparation constitutionalism. Secondly, it will inspect Cen Chunxuan's constitutional thinking that its core was that the Central set up house of senior politicians, inspectors hospital, the provincial government set up the center, County government will set up local rules, and studied their local self-government ideology. Again, it will study cooperation of Cen Chunxuan and Zheng Xiaoxu in Guangxi and his recognition of the constitutionalism character. These enhanced constitutionalism movement in the constitutional status. Finally, it will inspect the process of establishing the preparation constitution trade union and make us know the reasons that Cen Chunxuan participate in constitutionalism movement is the maintenance of the rule of the Qing government, and more of its own interests.Conclusion, the effectiveness of Cen Chunxuan's reform and make us be aware that the success reasonos of reform is due to the time, the advantages, and the human conditions.