THE XINHAI REVOLUTION

Xinhai Revolution

On October 10th, a revolution broke out against the Manchu government. The government was in such disarray and central power was so limited, that it did not take long for it to collapse entirely. By the end of the year, Dr. Sun Yat-sen had been elected President of China by the Revolutionary Provisional Assembly in Yanking. The Xinhai Revolutio or Hsinhai Revolution , named for the Chinese year of Xinhai (1911), was the overthrow (October 10, 1911–February 12, 1912) of China's ruling Qing Dynasty, sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, and the establishment of the Republic of China.The revolution began with the armed Wuchang Uprising and the spread of republican insurrection through the southern provinces, and culminated in the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor after lengthy negotiations between rival Imperial and Republican regimes based in Beijing and Nanjing respectively.

Manchu Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty , sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty , was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China , expanded into China proper and the surrounding territories of Inner Asia, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing . The Qing was the last imperial dynasty of China . Declared as the Later Jin Dynasty in 1616, it changed its name in 1636 to "Qing", and conquered all of China in 1644, ruling it until 1911. "Later Jin" is sometimes spelled "Later Jinn" to distinguish from another Later Jin Dynasty (936-946).