Why did the Meiji Restoration and the Westernization Movement turn out differently

This can be written as a ** to explain, so let's talk about my humble opinion.

1. Imperial power. The essence of Japan's Meiji Restoration was to re-establish the uniqueness of imperial power, that is, to complete the centralization of power, and the characteristic of any emerging regime is that the new policy can be implemented more conveniently.

The task of centralizing power in China has been completed as early as the Qin Dynasty, and the imperial power has basically been stable and has not changed much in the course of thousands of years, and the endogenous power to carry out the reform of the New Deal is small.

Second, the external environment.

Japan's small land was basically ignored when it was entered by the West, because Japan did not have too many resources worth plundering, and China's different vast resources and huge market became the targets of the West's coveting, and were greatly affected by external forces.

3. Reform ideas.

The logic of the Meiji Restoration was that Japan saw its own weaknesses, and the backbone of the Meiji Emperor's efforts to gain imperial power were all young aspirants, i.e., non-vested interests, with internal motivation and external learning opportunities.

The Westernization Movement is more of a reform movement launched by **** in order to gain more political capital. Centralization can no longer be an engine of change, because vested interests in political groups are more powerful than they think.

Qing ** does not want to move muscles and bones and only learns the skin, and Japan is new both inside and out. That's the difference between the two.

Fourth, the conclusion of failure.

The Westernization Movement was not a failure in terms of results, at least it laid a certain industrial base in China, albeit weakly. Moreover, it should be noted that the Meiji Restoration was able to succeed in the end, and it was not unrelated to the indemnity of 300 million taels ** of the Qing court in the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

Fifth, differences in cultural thinking.

Japan has long been in the posture of a learner, and there is no concern that the whole country will not be able to import Western ideas and Japan will not be able to become Japan. Learning from the advanced side is a normal thing for Japan.

In the past 100 years, the Qing court has been respected as a superior country by the surrounding countries in the regional stability system, and the final result is that there will be concerns that learning from the West will make China no longer China.

Sixth, the failure of the financial system.

Although China was the first country in the world to appear in terms of paper money and money banks, by the time of the Qing Dynasty, these had become the old yellow calendar, and all the money banks were institutions that relied on the political power to obtain benefits, and lacked the impetus for financial development and innovation, resulting in the lack of financial vitality in the economic system, and did not inject financial vitality into the Westernization movement, and financial power fell into the hands of Western banks for a long time.

Japan had a deeper understanding of finance earlier, and it was able to break the situation with a reparation of 200 million silver dollars because of the near collapse of paper money inflation.

A little personal thinking, thinking about history is to find experience for reference in history, and the development of events behind it is always in the same line, no matter how society progresses, these are unchanged, because it is always people who write history.

Cixi did not agree with capitalist reforms, Guangxu had no real power, Qing ** was corrupt, and the great powers did not want the colonies to develop. Japan, on the other hand, is the trend of the times, free from war and invasion by foreign powers.

The Westernization Movement was a self-help movement within the feudal rulers and did not change the history of the semi-colonies. The Meiji Restoration enabled Japan to quickly get rid of its semi-colonial situation and move towards the path of capitalist development, leaving Asia and joining Europe.

Comparing Chinese football and Japanese football, you can see a lot clearly.

Chinese football believes that spending money to buy technology and hiring foreign coaches can get the desired results and power. As everyone knows, it may be useful at the beginning, such as the Milu period, but the progress is only superficial and cannot be maintained. Because after reaching a certain level, the problem of system * degree begins to be gradually revealed.

The money spent began to slowly be overwhelmed by the corruption of the system. Li Tie's investigation is only the tip of the iceberg. This kind of corruption has been around for decades.

Therefore, if the sports management system is not changed, it is impossible to spend money on a World Cup. It can only be in the pockets of some people in power. In the end, I could only watch the Japanese team in the dust, and I couldn't even see the taillights.

The Japanese team completely broke away from Asia and entered Europe, the Chinese team could only entertain itself, the Chinese League was changed to the Chinese Super League, and now Guoan also lost to the county team.

Because the purpose of these two reforms was different, the resistance was also different, and the Qing Dynasty did not pay attention to cultivating talents at that time. Although the two movements were reformed at the same time, they were completely different in nature.

01.The purpose of the reform is different

China's Westernization Movement was entirely for the purpose of maintaining feudal rule, only for the sake of the country's self-improvement and prosperity, and did not bring along the vast number of peasants. The main purpose of this movement was to make profits for those rulers, and it did not put the development of the country and society in the mainstream. It only developed science and technology and the military, and did not change the old system.

On the contrary, the promotion of the Meiji Restoration was carried out by people from the Meiji Emperor all the way up to the civilian samurai. Japan also imported economic, cultural, and educational education from the West, which was a radical change. At that time, Japan's power system was very similar to that of the West, so it was a little easier to implement this initiative.

02.Resistance to reform is different

At that time, although the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty was carried out by the rulers, the imperial court was divided into Westernists and diehards. Those diehards have a deep foundation and relatively large power, and it is difficult to shake them at all, so it is particularly difficult in the process of reform. The Meiji Restoration, on the other hand, was carried out by both the Meiji Emperor and the civilian samurai, so there was little relative resistance, and the feudal warlords were weakened by the success of the Shogunate Movement.

Because there was little resistance to the Meiji Restoration, it was easier to try. <>

03.The Qing Dynasty had no talent

The Westernization Movement did not pay attention to cultivating its own talents, but relied more on those foreign talents, most of whom were invading officers or some businessmen who did not understand technology at all. Foreigners see that this is to help China's development, of course, the contribution will not be so fierce, and they are just for profit, and they will cut corners from it. The Meiji Restoration, on the other hand, not only brought in human resources, but also cultivated them domestically, so that they could improve and develop their own strengths.

The development of the Westernization movement is more like an empty shell, with slogans but no actual actions. The Meiji Restoration, on the other hand, was implemented everywhere, which is why the results of the two movements were different.

They reformed in different directions, one was technology, the other was system, the Westernization movement went bankrupt, and our technical reform could not play a role, the fundamental reason was the political system, and the Meiji Restoration started from this and achieved some success.

First of all, the background of the Westernization Movement was the product of mastering the skills of the Emperor to control the Emperor, and part of the reason for the Hundred Days Restoration was that the emperor wanted to be completely pro-government, and the two movements were fundamentally different.

Because the Westernization Movement was a reform movement of the feudal landlord class, he aimed to learn Western technology, learn from the art of the Yi, and basically maintain feudal rule. And the Meiji Restoration was learning about Western politics.