Because these reformers plan to end the growth of foreign influence in China.....
Chinese trade was dominated by foreign influence
Chinese trade was dominated by foreign influence
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Boxer Rebellion
He didn't!
Boxer Rebellion
The years between 1912 and 1938 were filled with upheaval in China. It was marked by the driving out of many of the foreign people there because it was believed they were a bad influence.
China was forced open to foreign influence by European powers. China's response was slow because they did not want to accept the ideals of foreign nations because they were deemed as "barbaric practices".
Empress Dowager Cixi sided with the Boxer uprising because she hoped it would force foreign powers from China and strengthen her own regime.
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Both wanted an independent, self governing China, free from foreign influence.
After decades of foreign rule, China wanted to protect its traditional culture from foreign influence.