In 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi seized power to stop China's modernization
In a dramatic 1898 palace coup, Empress Dowager Cixi crushed a bold movement to modernize China, placing the Emperor under house arrest and altering the course of the nation's future forever.
The Hundred Days' Reform was a daring attempt in 1898 by the Guangxu Emperor to modernize China's education, military, and economy. Fearing that these Western-style changes threatened the Qing Dynasty's traditional power, the formidable Empress Dowager Cixi staged a swift coup.
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