The Game between the Old and New Elites: The Establishment of Consultative Bureau, Local Governance, and Popular Revolts in the Late Qing China, 1902-1911

• In Event: Elites, Organizations, and the Chinese Communist Party

Brief Overview

This paper explores why the consultative bureau, a pro-establishment institution designed to promote a peaceful transition of the Qing government from an old monarchy to a constitutional monarchy, accelerates the destruction of the corrupted regime.

Author

• Chengli Wang, University of Macau