Articles

About the Collapse of Monarchic Regime in China in 1911–1912

Vostok/Oriens '2013, №4

 
The 1911 collapse of China’s monarchic regime was a significant event in the world history. In the 1970–1980s national historiography actively debated this problem in connection with the character and the result Xinhai Revolution and its consequence for the destiny of China. The article examines the fundamentals of the monarchic state system in China, the causes of collapse of the Qing Empire, and the differences between the Xinhai Revolution and cyclic crises of the earlier imperial dynasties. The author offers his own assessment of the causes, nature and results of the Xinhai events, defining them as an incomplete “bourgeois” revolution.

Keywords: China, monarchy, despotism, traditionalism, Confucianism, Qing Dynasty, opposition, nationalism, revolution

Pages: С. 44–50