This book takes the Revolution of 1911 as the core event and tells the history and social changes of China from 1908 to 1912; it begins with Emperor Xuantong's accession to the throne and ends with the Nanjing Provisional Government's move north.
Before the Revolution of 1911, there were reformists in China. Reformists should also have a progressive side. The Wucheng Reform was oppressed at that time. Why? It is hated by die-hards just because it is progressive. Sun Yat-sen went a step further than the reformists. He openly called for a bourgeois democratic revolution, overthrew the rule of the Qing Dynasty, ended China's two thousand years of feudal monarchy, established the Republic of China and the Provisional Revolutionary Government, and formulated a "Provisional Constitution." After the Revolution of 1911, whoever wants to be emperor again will not be able to do so."
