Chinese Revolution The Chinese Revolution was influenced by Enlightenment ideas including how the people should rule, how they have there own natural rights, and how they are born free.
By wolfedspiked
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Locke
"The philosopher John Locke held a different, more positive, view of human nature. He believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves. As reasonable beings, they had the natural ability to govern their own affairs and to look after the welfare of society." (Beck Roger B) John Loche wanted the goverment to protect them and when it became a monarchy they did not protect them so that is why they wanted the chinese people to rule. -
More of Locke
"Natural rights—life, liberty, property" (Beck Roger B) They wanted them to have all of these to themselfes and then they could be able to do what they wanted. -
Voltaire
"Reason, Nature, Happieness, Progress, and Liberty" (Beck Roger B) These are everything the chinese wanted. -
Montesquieu
Was about seperation of powers and the qings fall was like that and how they wanted the people to rule instead of the goverment. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” (Jean Jacques Rousseau) This is what the chinese wanted and they were not getting there freedom when they were in a monarchy. -
Qing Fall
"As Qing rule fell into decline, it made a few last-ditch efforts at constitutional reform. In 1905, the court abolished the examination system, which had limited political power to elites who passed elaborate exams on Chinese classics. Faced with increasing foreign challenges, it worked to modernize its military. With its central power weakening, the court also attempted a limited decentralization of power, creating elected assemblies and increasing provincial self-government." (Milestones) -
No Leaders
"Both the revolutionary leaders and the overseas Chinese bankrolling their efforts had their roots in southern China. The Revolutionary Alliance attempted seven or more different revolts against the Qing in the years leading up to the revolution, most of which originated in south China and all of which were ultimately stopped by the Qing army." (Milestones - Office of the Historian) This was like how they were arguing and the wars just kept coming. -
New Premier
"They named Yuan Shikai the new premier of China, but before he was able to retake the captured areas from the revolutionaries, the provinces started to declare their allegiance to the Revolutionary Alliance." (Milestones - Office of the Historian) Yuan Shikia is the new premier and he could not do that many new things as premier because there were people coming after him. -
The Chinese Revolution Start
"In October of 1911, a group of revolutionaries in southern China led a successful revolt against the Qing Dynasty, establishing in its place the Republic of China and ending the imperial system." (Milestones - Office of the Historian) The Revulution was started because they wanted the people to rule and others wanted the goverment to. The Enightment was about how they wanted two different things they wanted for them just like the chinese. -
Monarchy
"Finally, in the autumn of 1911, the right set of conditions turned an uprising in Wuchang into a nationalist revolt. As its losses mounted, the Qing court responded positively to a set of demands intended to transform authoritarian imperial rule into a Constitutional monarchy." (Milestones - Office of the Historian) There is now a monarchy and they are starting to revolt about this becase they want the people to rule. -
Works Sited
"The Chinese Revolution of 1911 - 1899–1913 - Milestones - Office of the Historian." The Chinese Revolution of 1911 - 1899–1913 - Milestones - Office of the Historian. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2016. Beck Roger B. World History: Patterns of Interactions. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005. Print.
