1911: The End of the Monarchy

With the Xinhai Revolution as its central event, this book recounts China's history and social changes from 1908 to 1912, beginning with Emperor Xuantong's accession and ending with the northward relocation of the Nanjing Provisional Government.

Before the Xinhai Revolution, China also had reformists, and they too had a progressive side. Why was the Wuxu Reform suppressed at the time? Precisely because it was progressive and earned the hatred of the conservatives. Sun Yat-sen went a step further than the reformists: he openly called for a bourgeois democratic revolution, overthrew Qing rule, ended more than two thousand years of China's feudal imperial system, established the Republic of China and its provisional revolutionary government, and drew up the Provisional Constitution. After the Xinhai Revolution, no one who tried to become emperor would succeed again.”