晚清宪政改革是中国政治制度史上一场重要的政治实践活动,是中国由传统君主专制政治向近代宪政民主政治转型的重要标志。从实质上说,晚清宪政改革是统治者在内外危急形势下被迫采取的制度移植措施,以挽救其自身统治为目标,但由于中国社会深厚的传统积淀,晚清社会既缺乏实行宪政的政治胚胎,又不具备实行宪政的经济基础和文化土壤,从此意义上说,晚清宪政改革的失败具有其历史必然性。 The constitutional reform in the late Qing Dynasty was an important political practice in the history of the Chinese political system and an important symbol of China’s transition from the tyranny of the traditional monarchy to the constitutional democracy in the modern history. In essence, the constitutional reform in the late Qing Dynasty was a system transplant that the rulers were forced to take under the critical situation both inside and outside the country and aimed at saving their own reign. However, due to the profound accumulation of traditions in the Chinese society, In this sense, the failure of the constitutional reform in the late Qing Dynasty has its historic inevitability.