Editing Hundred Days' Reform (section)

==Aftermath==
The [[late Qing reforms]] attempted in the years following the Hundred Days included the abolition of the [[Imperial examination]] in 1905, educational and military modernization patterned after the model of Japan, and experiments in constitutional and parliamentary government.{{cn|date=December 2024}} The ultimate failure of these reforms gave impetus to [[revolution]]ary forces within the country. Changes within the establishment were seen to be largely hopeless, and the overthrow of the Qing increasingly appeared to be the only way to save China. Despite the [[late Qing reforms]] of the early 1900s, such [[Anti-Qing sentiment|sentiments]] directly contributed to the success of the [[Xinhai Revolution]] in 1911.

[[Leo Tolstoy]] corresponded with [[Gu Hongming]] on the Hundred Day's Reform and agreed that the reform movement was ill-advised.<ref name="Lee2005">{{cite book|first=Khoon Choy |last=Lee|title=Pioneers of Modern China: Understanding the Inscrutable Chinese|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1jlOQc8BumIC&q=Tolstoy+boxers&pg=PA10|year= 2005|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-256-618-8|pages=10–}}</ref> The reformist Kang Party, formed by students of Kang and Liang, was one of the most alarming groups in the eyes of court conservatives at this time.<ref name=":1" />