Causes of the 1911 Revolution

1. Decline of Manchu Qing Power

1.1. Failure of Boxer Movement 1900

1.2. Foreign encroachment

2. Significance of Sun Yatsen

2.1. Failed Revolutions

2.1.1. 1900 Huichow Uprising

2.1.2. 1906-11 Guandong

2.2. Sun didn't instigate 10/10

2.3. Tongmenghui (est.1905)

2.3.1. Didn't follow through with Sun's plan

2.3.2. different factions

2.3.3. Only focused on first 2 principles

3. Revolutionary Action

3.1. Sun Yatsen and Tong Meng Hui 1905

3.1.1. San min zhu yi, ideological basis

3.1.2. GMD est. 1912

3.1.3. International awareness

3.2. Wen Xue Hui revolutionary organization

3.2.1. New Hubei Army recruits

3.2.1.1. Led by Tang Hualung

3.2.1.2. 15 provinces rebelled by a month and a half

3.3. Yuan Shikai

4. Anti-Manchu sentiment

4.1. Failed reforms

4.1.1. Failure of self-strengtening movement

4.1.2. Late Qing reforms

4.1.2.1. 1908 Outline of Constitution

4.1.3. Hundred Day Reforms

4.2. Nationalization of the Railways 1911

4.2.1. Commoners felt betrayed to foreigners by government, became sympathetic to revolutionaries

4.2.2. Aug 24 Chengdu protest