The Revolution of 1911. or the Xinhai Revolution. began as the Wuchang Uprising in 1910. It resulted in the abdication of the child emperor Puyi on February 12, 1912 and the establishment of the Republic of China.

Mao Tse-tung: It (Xinhai Revolution)was only with Dr. Sun Yat-sen that a more or less clearly defined bourgeois-democratic revolution began.

Deng Xiaoping: For almost a century after that war, high-minded persons, including Dr. Sun Yat-sen, tried to find ways to save China.

Jiang Zemin: It (Xinhai Revolution) failed to change the social nature of old China, but it opened the sluice-gates for progress in China.

Hu Jintao: It (Xinhai Revolution) initiated the modern national democratic revolution in its real sense and opened the gate for China's progress.

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Art exhibition marks centenary of 1911 Revolution (III)

Sun Yat-sen: Chinese democratic revolution forerunner

Dr. Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum decorated for centenary of 1911 Revolution

Qiu Jin: A heroine in China's anti-feudalist cause

Yuan Shikai: The leader of the Beiyang Army

Zhongshan Warship Museum
To mark the centenary of the Xinhai Revolution, Zhongshan Warship Museum opens to the public on Sept.26 in Wuhan city.

1911 Revolution Museum
In the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the revolution began, a new museum, the 1911 Revolution Museum, will be opened on the eve of the centenary.

Nanjing Presidential Palace
The Presidential Palace in Nanjing housed the Office of the President of the Republic of China before the republic relocated to Taiwan in 1949.

Chinese democratic revolution forerunner and first president of the Republic of China Sun Yat-sen was born to a poor family in Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province on November 12, 1866.