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• The Xinhai Revolution was an internal conflict in the final days of Imperial China that directly led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, and with it Imperial rule as a whole in China. It was fomented by the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance and resulted in the establishment of the Provincial Government of the Republic of China.

• Fast Facts

  1. Date: October 10, 1911 - January 1, 1912
  2. Location: China
  3. Also known as: The 1911 Revolution, the Chinese Republican Revolution
  4. Victor: Chinese Revolutionary Alliance
  5. • Chinese Revolutionary Alliance
  6. • Qing Dynasty
  7. • Revolutionaries
     : Li Yuanhong, Huang Hsing, Sun Yat-sen
  8. • Imperials
     : Feng Guozhang, Yuan Shikai

• Casualties

  • Revolutionaries: ~50,000
  • Imperials: Unknown

• Temporary Solution

  Though the revolution succeeded in ending 2000 years of Imperial rule, republican rule would only last a few decades before civil war between the Communist and Nationalist parties would break out in China.

• Related Mahalo Pages

  Triads | China | History of China | First Opium War | The Boxer Rebellion | Tibet | Wuchang Uprising | Sun Yat-sen | Mao Zedong | Chiang Kai-shek

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