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Sean Brown
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Although the revolution certainly did not bring stable parliamentary government to China, it has changed urban life in Hangzhou for the better.
The city's industrial and financial power has increased since the merchants took control of the city, while the rest of China was divided between warlords. The fact that new tourism companies have developed in Hangzhou shows that this imbalance is an effect of imperialism and industrialisation.
Shanghai, the jewel of imperialism and colonialism in China, has become a center of modern industry and culture at the expense of the older cities in the Jiangnan region. Shanghai has taken over Hangzhou's role as an economic and cultural center, but the city itself is also increasingly dependent on westernized metropolises. China's defeat was fueled by the reformers in the Qing government's desire for faster modernization, which led to the formation of a new government led by Emperor Ming and his son, Emperor Qing. The new governments launched a third ambitious attempt to industrialize China by imitating the Soviet Union's central planning model.
The Xinhai Revolution, which was also a crucial catalyst for China's renewal, began with the Wuchang Uprising on October 10, 1911, and ended with the Puyi Revolution on May 4, 1912, the beginning of the Fourth May Movement, in which ideology, politics, and culture developed into a new democracy. The Usury Revolution, as the rebellion was called, was the first attempt to overthrow feudal autocracy in China and was a key part of a series of movements to develop ideology and politics, culture and the development towards the "new democracy" in May and the fourth movement. It triggered the Xinhao Revolution, which led to the rise of Mao Zedong and his Communist Party in Beijing and Beijing's rise to power.
The changes that occurred in Hangzhou during the early Republican period amounted to what Eric Hobsbawm and his colleagues call the "invention of tradition." The 1911 revolution ended the decline of the Qing dynasty and marked the beginning of a new era of political and cultural change in China's history. The revolution was called the 1911 revolution, as it took place in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. This end of Qing marked a significant change in thinking about the nature of government and the development of ideology, politics, culture and culture.
In 1905, Sun Huang Xing founded the Tongmenghui in Tokyo, which spread the revolution throughout China and attracted many Chinese young people from Japan. The revolutionaries quickly took over the cities of Wuchang, Hanyang and Hankou , installed the military government of Hubei under Li Yuanhong as governor, gave it the new name Republic of China and declared the city itself under the Qing government. Soon mutineers seized the Wuchsang Mint and Arsenal, and the treasures of the four Summer Palaces were brought to the Forbidden City in agreement between the Qing Dynasty and republican governments.
Discontent with the Qing's success in the Wuchang Uprising inspired rebellions in a variety of cities and regions across China. The decisions taken in May 1911 led to the establishment of the Railway Protection Movement, where local businessmen and investors founded the Hubei State Railway Company, the first of its kind in China and the first railway company in the country.
The spatial arrangement of Qing Hangzhou was also shaped by conditions that were typical only for the Qing Dynasty. The existence of flags and garrisons in Hangzhou meant that the anti-Manchu revolution would be an important factor in the development of the city's political and economic structure. In just a few months immediately after the 1911 revolution, Hang Zhou's current spatial layout was determined in a series of decisions.
Zhou ruled ancient China and established distinctive political and cultural features that would mark China for the next 2,000 years. The name "China," derived from Ch'in Qin, defined the approximate boundaries and basic administrative system that would be followed by later Chinese dynasties over the last 1,500 years, as well as the name of the city itself, which represents an approximate boundary of this basic administrative system.
The early Qing Dynasty experienced a prolonged period of prosperity and internal stability, which led to the Chinese population exploding from 100 million to nearly 450 million by the end of the Qing era.