Sun Yat-sen at the time when he was Provisional President. The 1911 Wuchang Uprising took over the governor-general’s yamen in Wuchang. Aspiring for the independence and liberation of China, the Chinese people waged a courageous and unyielding struggle. Led by Sun Yat-sen, the Revolution of 1911 ended the two-thousand-year-old feudal rule and established the Republic of China.