![]() ![]() There were elements in both China and Japan that favored cooperation, but whether those ideas could take hold, I don't know. Japan's desire for Chinese resources could be sated with trade, which would result in a transfer of expertise and technology to China. Following the issuing of the reformative edicts, a coup d'tat was perpetrated by powerful conservative opponents led by Empress Dowager Cixi. It was undertaken by the young Guangxu Emperor and his reform-minded supporters. This could have the effect of undoing Guangxu's success.Īnother interesting angle is if a resurgent China sparked a more genuine pan-Asian movement and cooperation between China and Japan. The Hundred Days' Reform or Wuxu Reform was a failed 103-day national, cultural, political, and educational reform movement that occurred from 11 June to 22 September 1898 during the late Qing dynasty. The Chinese title of this reformist organization was the Society to Protect the Emperor, and the picture of the Guangxu Emperor is at the top of the poster. Although a successful Hundred Days' Reform would lessen support for a revolution, with more extensive Japanese action, it might still succeed. ![]() However, the prospect of a modernizing China could provoke Japan to strike earlier, either militarily or covertly, by supporting rebels. Even OTL, Japan was essentially stuck from 1939-1944, despite taking most of the major cities in eastern China. Given China's massive numerical superiority, Japan probably wouldn't risk attacking at all, and if they did, they'd likely run into a stalemate without making any substantial gains first. And despite the fact that China's military technology would still lag behind, the gap would be much smaller. They'd still be at a per capita disadvantage compared to Japan, but in all likelihood, a couple of decades of modernization would give China a larger economy and larger industrial base than Japan. If Japan waited until the 30s to attack like OTL, they probably wouldn't have been able to get anywhere. The Guangxu Emperor had rapidly unveiled the Hundred Days reforms. Especially since this could avert the Xinhai Revolution entirely, preventing the dysfunctional warlord era. The blog was created in 2009 to overcome some of the challenges of studying such a. In three or four decades time, with reforms, China could be unrecognizable. ![]() The spoils from the First Sino-Japanese war are exactly the same, since that was before this POD. ![]()
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