The revolution began with the armed Wuchang Uprising and the spread of republican insurrection through the southern provinces, and culminated in the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor after lengthy negotiations between rival Imperial and Republican regimes based in Beijing and Nanjing respectively.
The Revolution inaugurated a period of struggle over China's eventual constitutional form, which saw two brief monarchical restorations and successive periods of political fragmentation before the Republic's final establishment.
The Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution (Chinese: 辛亥革命; pinyin: Xīnhài Gémìng), also known as the 1911Revolution or the Chinese Revolution, was a republican revolution which overthrew China's ruling Qing Dynasty, occasionally known as the Manchu Dynasty, and which saw the establishment of the Republic of China.
Since 1911 is a Xinhai Year in the sexagenary cycle of Chinese calendar, "Xinhai" became the name of the revolution.
The revolution began with the armed Wuchang Uprising and the spread of republican insurrection through the southern provinces, and culminated in the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor after lengthy negotiations between rival Imperial and Republican regimes based in Beijing and Nanjing respectively.
Denies that it was a bourgeois revolution since it was not for the bourgeoisie but for all classes, that is, the nation as a whole.
The 1911revolution was an "old-democratic" revolution, a "bourgeoisie revolution," and/or a "national-saving" revolution, but not a great social revolution.
The revolution was not a thoroughgoing revolution, and it did not accomplish its historic task.
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