Chronicles of Xinhai in Guizhou Province with Traces of Time

This book is a piece of modern local documentary literature that takes the entire transformation of the Revolution of 1911 in Guizhou as the grand main line and the fate of civilian families in troubled times as the microscopic auxiliary line. The book is based on the turbulent situation in the southwest at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. It completely retraces the complete historical cycle from the decline of the late Qing Dynasty, the peaceful recovery of Guizhou in 1911, to the factional strife, bloody coups, the entry of the Yunnan Army into Guizhou, and the change of political power. With a narrative style that blends fiction and reality, it reproduces the tragic years of the first year of the Republic of China when Guizhou was turbulent, disillusioned, and mountains and rivers changed. At the end of the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing government was decayed and people's livelihood was in decline. Southwest Guizhou was plagued by serious evils and undercurrents. As the Wuchang Uprising thundered and revolutionary waves swept across the country, the Guizhou Autonomous Society stepped forward to rally the hearts and minds of the people, integrate the forces of the New Army, and launch righteous actions to achieve peaceful recovery, establish the Han Guizhou Military Government, and create a new republican pattern of co-governance of military, civil, and legislative affairs. Suddenly, the sparks of Qianling were ignited, and Guizhou, which had been closed and conservative for thousands of years, took the lead in embracing the new trend of democracy and republic. Countless people with lofty ideals went to justice and saved the country, trying to revolutionize their homeland and rebuild the southwest with their blood. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.