China's Revolution 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War

Excerpt from Chinas Revolution 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War When the Revolution broke out I was residing in Hankow. Throughout the war I remained in Hankow leaving this centre for Shanghai during the days when the Peace Conference was held in that city. I am a personal friend of the leader of the Revolution General Li Yuan Hung and by virtue of having all the time been in possession of much exclusive information from behind the political curtain am probably equipped to write of the main doings of the Revolution in that area where its effects were most marked. On the very eve of the Revolution a book written by myself was published simultaneously in England and America which contains some strangely prophetic utterances and will give the reader who has not made Chinese politics a study a general idea of the condition of the country when the Revolution made the scales drop from the eyes of her teeming millions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.