陶模与清末新政

Tao Mo and the New Policies Reforms in the Late Qing Dynasty

陶模调任两广总督 ,适逢新政开端 ,其敢为天下先 ,倡言变政 ,主张激进 ,超越同侪。所提废科举、裁宦官、设议院、变官制等事 ,当时虽未准奏 ,却大都在新政后期一一实行。陶模言行及相关事件 ,在某种程度上反映了戊戌与新政之间深刻而复杂的历史渊源和人脉联系 ,表达了各派革新人士的部分意愿要求 。

Tao Mo was assigned the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi just when the Xinzhe ng or New Policies reforms (1898—1911) began. He was a bold reformer and dist ingu i shed himself from others with his radical proposals including abolishing the civ il examination, setting up parliament, and reforming the official system. Most o f these proposals, not rectified at the time, were carried out in the late stage s of the reforms. Taos activities and the related events reflected to some deg r ee the profound and complicated relations between the 1898 Reform Movement and t he later New Policies reforms, and expressed the wills of various groups of refo rmers. In this regard, the New Policies reforms may as well be seen as a logical development of the changing society in early modern China.