Sun Yatsen is known as ‘the father of the nation’ (China). He was one the of the Chinese revolutionaries who brought about the ideas of modernism and the plans to regenerate the nation of China. Sun was the one who had taught the ideas of his revolution to the ones who triggered the double tenth (10th October 1911), where nationalists began an uprising against the imperial system. This was the the Qing, imperial rulers of China. The entire imperial system had lasted for about 3000 years, but when the Qing fell the whole system collapsed. Sun Yatsen was a very important factor in this, however so were other factors, such as the majority of the nations resentment to the Qing; the Boxer rising of 1900-01 and also, Yuan Shikai (the man with most
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Yuan had been the general in command of the Beijing Army. He had used his military power to become a threat to the Manchu government. Over the pre-texts that his war wounds made him unsightly in court, Yuan was dismissed by Prince Chun. Then later, when the uprising in Wuhan begun, Prince Chun asked Yuan if he would take the army to sort it out. Yuan indeed looked as if he was doing that, but once he reached Wuhan he turned on the Qing and joined the revolutionists as revenge for the unkind dismissal from the court. Yuan had the loyalty of the army, so it was easy for him to do this. However he was in no sense a revolutionary. He would allow the Qing to fall, but by no means would he would not want a republic in charge either. Yuan was the one to ask the Qing to step down though and without the military support the revolution would not have necessarily easily succeeded, which in comparison to Sun was probably more efficient. This use of force would have been more effective at a quick revolution. However this again was force and thus loyalty was created by using terror, not by changing the minds of thousands of Chinese over how the culture is. Therefore in conclusion, Yuan was only a short term cause, not a long term cause as he hasn’t been trying to revolutionise China for the long term as Sun
Yuan had been the general in command of the Beijing Army. He had used his military power to become a threat to the Manchu government. Over the pre-texts that his war wounds made him unsightly in court, Yuan was dismissed by Prince Chun. Then later, when the uprising in Wuhan begun, Prince Chun asked Yuan if he would take the army to sort it out. Yuan indeed looked as if he was doing that, but once he reached Wuhan he turned on the Qing and joined the revolutionists as revenge for the unkind dismissal from the court. Yuan had the loyalty of the army, so it was easy for him to do this. However he was in no sense a revolutionary. He would allow the Qing to fall, but by no means would he would not want a republic in charge either. Yuan was the one to ask the Qing to step down though and without the military support the revolution would not have necessarily easily succeeded, which in comparison to Sun was probably more efficient. This use of force would have been more effective at a quick revolution. However this again was force and thus loyalty was created by using terror, not by changing the minds of thousands of Chinese over how the culture is. Therefore in conclusion, Yuan was only a short term cause, not a long term cause as he hasn’t been trying to revolutionise China for the long term as Sun