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Sun Yat-sen and Xinhai Revolution
The Xinhai Revolution refers to the bourgeois-democratic revolution that took place in 1911 (the third year of the Xuantong reign of the Qing dynasty) which ended the Chinese autocratic monarchy of over two thousand years. The revolution overturned the Qing government and ushered China into a new era of democracy and republicanism. The revolution was named after the year 1911, which, in the Chinese calendrical system, is designated xinhai.
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中華民國的誕生
1911年10月武昌起義時,孫中山遠在美國科羅拉多州(Colorado)的丹佛城(Denver)。當他得悉勝利的消息後,決定先從外交方面着手,爭取列強和四國銀行團的支持,並切斷西方給予清政府的借款。
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辛亥革命導火線——武昌起義
武昌起義演變成辛亥革命,這是因為1911年5月,清政府的皇族內閣成立,不久即宣佈實行「鐵路國有」,與英、法、德、美四國銀行團簽定了粵漢、川漢鐵路的借款合同,把兩條鐵路的路權重新出賣。
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