Editing Hundred Days' Reform (section)

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With the support of the conservatives and the armed forces commanded by Yuan and Ronglu, Cixi launched a ''[[coup d'état]]'' on September 22, 1898, and took over the government.<ref name=":0" /> Guangxu was put under [[house arrest]] on the [[Zhongnanhai|Yingtai Island]] until his death in 1908.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The poisoned palace - mystery of last emperor's death |url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-11/21/content_7226663.htm |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=www.chinadaily.com.cn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Troubled Times at the Beginning of the Century (2) The Dark Political Situation |url=https://www.cctv.com/english/tc/sanji/tc02.html |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=www.cctv.com}}</ref>

The reforms were reversed and their chief advocates – the "[[Six gentlemen of the Hundred Days' Reform|Six Gentlemen of Wuxu]]" (戊戌六君子): [[Tan Sitong]], Kang Guangren (Kang Youwei's brother), [[Lin Xu]], Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, and [[Liu Guangdi]] – were ordered to be executed. Reforms such as the abolishing of the old writing style was put back into mandate, the removal of offices and agencies were reinstituted, and the establishment of certain newspapers, civil societies and schools were all suspended.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Xiaoye |first=Jia |date=June 2020 |title=Kang Youwei's propaganda adjustments after the Hundred Days Reform, 1898–1900 |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/17535654.2020.1763667 |journal= Journal of Modern Chinese History|volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=48–49 |doi=10.1080/17535654.2020.1763667 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> The two principal leaders, [[Kang Youwei]] and his student [[Liang Qichao]], fled to Japan to seek refuge where they founded [[Baohuang Hui]] (Protect the Emperor Society) and worked, unsuccessfully, for a constitutional monarchy in China. Tan Sitong refused to flee and was executed. An alternative view is that Liang and Kang had a different objective for leaving for Japan which is to not only justify fleeing China but to also solicit intervention by foreign powers like Britain or Japan to rescue Emperor Guangxu.<ref name=":1" />

During the Hundred Days' Reform, generals [[Dong Fuxiang]], [[Ma Anliang]], and [[Ma Haiyan]] were called to Beijing and helped put an end to the movement along with [[Ma Fulu]] and [[Ma Fuxiang]]. Dong Fuxiang and the Muslim Gansu Army stationed in Beijing during the Hundred Days' Reform later participated in the [[Boxer Rebellion]] and became known as the [[Kansu Braves]].