In this podcast, Matthew Rothwell, author of Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin America, explores the global history of ideas related to rebellion and revolution. The main focus of this podcast for the near future will be on the history of the Chinese Revolution, going all the way back to its roots in the initial Chinese reactions to British imperialism during the Opium War of 1839-1842, and then following the development of the revolution and many of the ideas that were products of the revolution through to their transnational diffusion in the late 20th century.
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episode 11: The 1911 Revolution
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
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