Revealing the Secret: Why did the Qing government sign the "Xin Chou Treaty"?

/kloc-At the end of 0/9, the imperialist powers fought for and carved up China, which caused an unprecedented national crisis in China. This sense of crisis contributed to people's awakening, and saving the country became the most urgent requirement at that time. 1898, the bourgeois reformists failed in their reform movement, 1900, a vigorous anti-imperialist patriotic boxer movement with farmers as the main body broke out. The Boxer Rebellion started in Shandong and quickly spread to Zhili, Tianjin and Beijing, causing panic among imperialist powers. They decided to send troops to suppress the Boxer Rebellion themselves. Britain, the United States, Japan, Russia, France, Germany, Italy and Austria organized a coalition to invade China and invaded Beijing in August. 190 1 year, the Qing government was forced to sign an unequal treaty. Because this year is the year of happiness and ugliness in China's old calendar, this treaty is called "the treaty of happiness and ugliness". Empress Dowager Cixi fled to xi 'an with Emperor Guangxu and his cronies. The Qing Dynasty was forced to make peace with imperialism. -Common sense, history.