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The Wuchang Uprising was an armed rebellion against the ruling Qing dynasty that took place in Wuchang (now Wuchang District of Wuhan) in the Chinese province of Hubei on 10 October 1911, beginning the Xinhai Revolution that successfully overthrew China's last imperial dynasty.
The 1911 Revolution overthrew the Qing government and four thousand years of monarchy. [1] Throughout Chinese history, old dynasties had always been replaced by new dynasties. The 1911 Revolution, however, was the first to overthrow a monarchy completely and attempt to establish a republic to spread democratic ideas throughout China.
The Wuchang Uprising unfolded on October 10, 1911, and marked the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution.Turmoil in the frontier regions of China began to spread. [1]: 58–59 The revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen insisted on "getting rid of the Tartars" and rejected the Manchus, creating a new government based completely on Han-dominated China proper.
Days after the success of the Wuchang Uprising in October 1911, the Revolutionaries began to spread the revolution to other major cities of China starting from Changsha in Hunan province, not far from Wuhan. The Qing troops were already weakened by their defeat at Wuchang, therefore making the city easy to capture.
By November 20 the two groups compromised and recognized Hubei as the central government and proposed everyone go to Wuchang. [1] By November 28, Hankou and Hanyang had fallen back to the Qing , so for safety the revolutionaries convened their first conference at the British concession in Hankou on November 30. [ 2 ]
Photograph of the provisional government assembled in Nanjing to elect a leader after the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911. The 1911 Chinese provisional presidential election was the election held on 29 December 1911 during the Xinhai Revolution for the First Provisional President and Vice President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China.
On October 10, 1911, Sun Yat-sen's followers launched the Wuchang Uprising, [10] which led to the collapse of the Qing dynasty, [11] as well as the establishment of the Republic of China. [12] Wuhan was the capital of a leftist Kuomintang government led by Wang Jingwei , in opposition to Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalist government during the ...
Late Qing reforms (Chinese: 晚清改革 [1]; pinyin: Wǎnqīng gǎigé), commonly known as New Policies of the late Qing dynasty [2] (Chinese: 清末新政; pinyin: Qīngmò xīnzhèng), or New Deal of the late Qing dynasty, [3] simply referred to as New Policies, were a series of cultural, economic, educational, military, diplomatic, and political reforms implemented in the last decade of ...