1998年，是“戊戌变法”100周年。“戊戌变法”是在十九世纪末年中国民族危机深重，国内阶级矛盾尖锐激化的形势刺激下，由维新派发动的，通过光绪皇帝发布“上谕”的形式掀起的一场资产阶级改良运动。“戊戌变法”的直接目的，是试图通过内政外交的全面改革，使中国自立自强于 1998 is the 100th anniversary of the “Reform Movement of 1898”. The “Reform Movement of 1898” was a bourgeois reform movement launched by the reformers and promoted by the Emperor Guangxu in the form of “encyclical”, stimulated by the deepening ethnic crisis in China and the sharp intensification of domestic class conflicts in the late nineteenth century. The direct purpose of the “Reform Movement of 1818” is to try to make China self-reliance and strength through internal reform and external diplomacy