Advisory Council (Qing dynasty)

Advisory Council

資政院
Flag of the Qing Empire
Type
Type
History
Founded6 November 1906 (1906-11-06)
Disbanded12 February 1912 (1912-02-12)
Succeeded byProvisional Senate of the Republic of China
Leadership
President
Xu Dinglin
since 26 January 1912
Vice President
Dashou
since 30 October 1911
Secretary General
Jin Bangping
since 3 October 1910
Structure
Seats200
Political groups
Election result
  •   Constitutionalists (116)
  •   Revolutionaries (8)
  •   Independents (72)
  •   Vacant (4)
Length of term
3 years
Elections
Last election
October 1909
Meeting place
Advisory Council Building, Beijing
Constitution
Principles of the Constitution (1908–12)
Nineteen Articles (1911–12)
Rules
Charter of Advisory Council
Advisory Council
Traditional Chinese資政院
Simplified Chinese资政院
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZī Zhèng Yuàn
Wade–GilesTzu1 Cheng4 Yüan4

The Advisory Council (Chinese: 資政院), also known as the Government Advisory Council,[1] Political Advisory Council,[2] or Political Advisory Board,[3] was a preparatory body for the parliament established in 1910. It was part of the New Policies in the late Qing dynasty, of which the Qing court was moving toward the implementation of a constitution. In September 1907, the Guangxu Emperor promulgated a decree on the setting up of the Advisory Council, following by the provincial Consultative Bureaus in October.

The Advisory Council was established on 6 November 1906, and formally opened on 10 October 1910, after the first parliamentary election in last October. The council was dissolved on 12 February 1912 along with the end of the Qing dynasty, and was replaced by the Provisional Senate of the Republic of China.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Xiaoqun Xu (2020). Heaven Has Eyes: A History of Chinese Law. Oxford University Press. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-0-19-006004-6.
  2. ^ John Gillespie; Albert H.Y. Chen (13 September 2010). Legal Reforms in China and Vietnam: A Comparison of Asian Communist Regimes. Routledge. pp. 197–. ISBN 978-1-136-97842-5.
  3. ^ Joan Judge (1 March 1997). Print and Politics: 'Shibao' and the Culture of Reform in Late Qing China. Stanford University Press. pp. 295–. ISBN 978-0-8047-6493-3.
  4. ^ Wang Dezhi (2005). Origins of Constitutional Concepts in China. Shandong People's Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-209-03709-9.
  5. ^ Chinese Legal History. Shanghai People's Publishing House. 2003. ISBN 9787208047273.
  6. ^ Modern Chinese History Dictionary. Chinese Communist Party History Press. 1992. ISBN 978-7-80023-476-7.