POLA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article : Intelligentsia, Shandong, Bourgeoisie
Document Summary
What triggered the chinese revolution can be seen as a reaction to imperialism, to an outside force that threatened the country"s very existence. The revolutionaries thought china was weak against the west. The revolutionaries of 1911 saw the manchu dynasty as a powerless one unable to meet aggression and convert humiliation (conducted by imperialist powers on china) into vengeance. China did not have the industrial or technological capacity, during the. Manchu dynasty, to defend itself against imperialist western powers. China sought a democracy (a political system that would make them strong) China did not necessarily hate absolutism or imperialism, but the took inspiration from the french revolution and sought a democratic leadership in order to give the country strength. Sun yat sen claims that revolution is the only way to unite a scattered china against imperialist powers. Sun yat sen, due to the failure of democracy, transitions to the bolshevik school of thought.
