Austrian and Chinese Peoples' Struggle to Build a Republic Since Sissi

Elizabeth Su, modern descendant of founders of the Chinese Republic

Sissi - Elisabeth of Wittelsbach (1837 - 1898)

Life after the crumpling of the Habsburg Empire, after Sissi and Franz Joseph are gone. The empire is gone. The colonial empire is shrinking. The navy captain without an ocean, land-locked after 1918. As a naval officer without an ocean (Austria having become landlocked with the new borders of 1918/19). Evolution but not revolution, for its sovereign, and a broken empire needs identity for each region. Her very liberal ideas, her call for a republican structure and her effort for the poor and troublesome made her very popular with the Austrian people. Sissi is gone and Germany has fallen, in a litany of crises. After the desolation of World War I, Hitler rose in the 1930s to suit the fragmented class struggles. Much as communism rose to answer the invasion and breaking down of an integral ROC nation in China. In 1898 Sissi was assassinated. The Austrian people’s beloved empress was murdered. She was very much an innovator and calling for a republican form of government. In the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, the German ambassador to China was assassinated in Beijing. 1901 German Marshall led the invasion of Beijing by a multi-national foce which included Austria, and burned the city for 3 days. China’s princess consort, Zhen Fei Treasure, just like Sissi, was a very new thinker, and was for the reform was murdered by the Dowager, as she tried to stay in the capital to negotiate with the foreign powers. The Turning Point that is not meant to be. The One Hundred days of reform was termed as ‘coup’ as it challenged the old structure, but in light of it, it was the only way that the ill dynasty could breathe new fresh air. But her allied group was executed or exiled, and her husband, the emperor was held under house arrest until he digressed into insanity or was poisoned by the Dowager, days before her own demise. The Chinese dowager empress dared to say “No” to the world invaders and announced resistance toward 8 countries. 1918 the fall of Austria 1919 Paris Treaty was done in a wrongful way to take advantage of the new Republic of China founded in 1911, and gave the German colony in the Shangdong Peninsula to Japan, rather than returning it to China as the Chinese government demanded. 1927 China’s Nationalist government got back Wuhan as she gloriously took back the first lost land, and abolished some of the Unequal treaties for the first time. Very much like if after 7 warring states China feudal epoch, that it didn’t unify, instead went into permanently splinters and 7 states permanently, instead, China was no dissolving Habsburg Empire. China cohesively united into one country, Qin, and then ushered in and paved a long solid culture and long-epoch Han dynasty. Long last long Live the Han race, the nation called China and identity! Begotten our identify through the forging of a dynasty, though the dynasty is long gone, the spirits and coalescing works in culture, assimilating, beautiful buds of humane, scientific methodology, philosophy, are the underlying monumental works running deep psyche and can withstand any cruel invasion, any annihilation, a land that the enemies can never reach and destroy because of the work of many philosophers, poets, educators, nameless soldiers, the work that no barbarians can conquer. We thank the ancestors for laying the foundation of indestructible civilization on earth. Sissi is smiling in the shadow and walking on her empire’s garden, as the people have walked out of the Nazis and Soviet dominance and gained such proud Germanic culture into cosmopolitan evolution. She would want the vein of Germanic best values, the free Beethoven, Mozart to flow into the minds of many who endear a place called “sanctuary eternal” that no Stalin, Nazi, Mao, or any cruel ruler can take away.