Dec 14 2019 23 mins 53
The overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, followed by the first years of the Republic of China. Further reading on the 1911 Revolution: Joseph Esherick and C.X. George Wei, editors, China: How the Empire Fell Some names from this episode: Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Revolution and revolutionary communist par excellence Sun Zhongshan/Sun Yat-sen, leader of the Revolutionary Alliance Huang Xing, Vice-President of the Revolutionary Alliance and military leader of the April 1911 uprising in Guangzhou Puyi, child emperor who abdicated his throne at age five Prince Chun, regent for Puyi Yuan Shikai, leader of Beiyang Army Empress Dowager Cixi, power behind the throne who died in 1908 Kang Youwei, Confucian advocate of liberal modernization and Qing loyalist Guangxu Emperor, Emperor of China during the Hundred Days Reform of 1898 Song Jiaoren, leading Guomindang organizer, assassinated in 1913 Zeng Guofan, leader of Qing forces that defeated the Taiping rebels Li Hongzhang, high level Chinese statesman and advocate of self-strengthening
