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Video • China marks centenary of 1911 Revolution • Beijing art exhibition celebrates Xinhai Revolutionaries • The Revolution 1911-2011 • 1911 Revolution Museum to open during National Day • Exhibition in Chengdu marks 1911 Revolution • Rare photos of Dr. Sun Yat-sen shown in Japan • Hu joins cross-Straits youth exchange activity

Backgrounder >> 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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