On the Manchuria Factor of Constitutional Reform at the End of the Qing Dynasty

The academic study on the Constitutional Reform at the end of the Qing Dynasty focuses on the question whether it is a razzle-dazzle or not. However, the study cannot open out the true features of the reform. For the emperor and the Manchu nobles, they care less about which is better between absolute monarchy and constitutional monarchy but which is more propitious to their governing the state. The real trouble to them is that no matter what they choose they will lose the power. So the only way they can choose is Fabian strategy.