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How Did the New Army Bring Down the Qing Dynasty? - The Fatal Reforms of the Late Qing Dynasty | Sleepy Facts About History
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The standard story of the Qing dynasty’s final years often describes an inward-looking, tradition-bound empire that simply refused to change until it was too late. But the historical record tells a very different story. For roughly fifty years before its fall in 1911, the Qing pursued sweeping reforms across military organization, education, industry, diplomacy, and eventually constitutional government. This episode examines how those very efforts to modernize the state created the forces…
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