If there were no Empress Dowager Cixi in China, how would history develop?

Without Empress Dowager Cixi, the direction of historical development will not change, and the demise of the Qing Dynasty is inevitable. The reason for this is the following：

1. From the perspective of historical materialism, the development of history is not determined by one person, but by the interaction of production methods and class factors. That is to say, because of these conditions, the environment in which these characters lived at that time, and all the decisions made by the Qing government at that time were not made out of thin air by Empress Dowager Cixi, but were produced in a complicated game at that time.

2. Use the word "historical materialism" to express this view of explaining the occurrence of historical events: "It is believed that the ultimate cause and motive force of all important historical events is the economic development of society and the change of production mode and exchange mode. It is the result of the division of society into different classes and the game between these classes. " ?

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Some practices of Cixi are also commendable. Her reform method is actually very clever, and the reform of the Hundred Days Reform is too fast. This is just a farce, and it can't be successful. After the disaster in Gengzi, Empress Dowager Cixi realized that the current situation no longer allowed her to adhere to the imperial tradition. The so-called "ancestral law" allowed the Qing court to implement various New Deal measures. There are many contents involved in the post-boxer New Deal, the most important of which include: changing the official system, preparing for constitutionalism, abolishing the imperial examination system, prohibiting women from foot-binding, setting up girls' schools, starting new schools, and building educational undertakings with boxer's refund.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Empress Dowager Cixi of historical materialism