The Uprising Ending the Chinese Empire - Xinhai Revolution (1911-1912)

When a bomb exploded in the Russian Concession Zone in the Chinese city of Hankou, nobody could predict the ripple effect that would result from it. Imperial Chinese soldiers discovered membership registers of thousands of revolutionary cells... among them many of their colleagues. These rebels, understanding they would be put against the wall if they did not act fast, rose up against the Qing Dynasty. Like an oil spill, the rebellion spread over China until China's final Emperor, Puyi, could do no more but abdicate.
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1:37 The Revolutionary Alliance
4:59 The Wuchang Rebellion
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[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood" - Lu Xun

[@daveanderson3805]

Some modern day politicians would do well to remember that simple truth 👍

[@miliba]

The movie 1911 (which was made in 2011) stares Jackie Chan as protagonist during the Xinhai Revolution. Definitely worth a watch!

[@grandadmiralzaarin4962]

And I love the scene in that film where Dr Sun Yat Sen is telling the Western delegates at the lunch party that the pieces of food represent their feasting on China and saying, "Enjoy your meal Gentlemen, for this will be the last time you will be able to feast on China."

[@kevzortd8073]

It is propaganda

[@miliba]

@@kevzortd8073 How?

[@miliba]

@@grandadmiralzaarin4962 yeah hilarious scene

[@kevzortd8073]

@@miliba because of the nationalist tone

[@codyshi4743]

You done it again House of History, this will definitely help me on my upcoming revolution course essay.

[@Crafty_Spirit]

Great stuff, Oscar - I could really tell that you quickly adopted the feedback others and I gave you on sounds, animations, etc. - the improvements are sensible :-)

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Wow... House of History, your content is just truly amazing! So well made, so entertaining and informative. I never knew much about this and so I learnt how the Qing empire died. Maybe a follow up video could be on how Mongolia broke away from China? That would be fascinating.

[@HoH]

Thank you! I am glad it the effort to improve my video's quality doesn't go unnoticed. The breakaway of Mongolia is very interesting, next week is a video about the First Sino-Japanese war. I'll take note of your suggestion.

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

@@HoH Honestly, I think this was your most well made video! The music fit SO well! Keep up the good work! And yes please do , do a video on how Mongolia gained independence. Mongol history is severely unrepresented among KZbinrs and Historians. It's always Genghis Khan and sometimes his sons but never Modern Mongol history.

[@mariusmatei2946]

​@@luxembourgishempire2826as you might know, even today, China is a multiethnic state; in 1912, upon the abolition of the monarchy/Qing Dynasty, both, Mongolia, and Tibet began to separate themselves of what had been the Chinese/Qing Empire. Both, Russia, and the United Kingdom had long coveted Mongolia (Russia), and Tibet (the United Kingdom) as parts of China unde their (Russia's, and the United Kingdom's) spheres of influence; and, so, in 1913, Yuan Shikai, officially, let go of Mongolia, and Tibet, which , independently, entered under the influence of Russia, and the United Kingdom.

[@garykubodera9528]

Great video!! There was so much going on in China during this period in thier history with so many players in it. You did a good job in trying to capture all of the big amd small people involved in this small segment of China's history in this video..somethimg difficult to do and not bore the viewer in the process. Keep up the great work and look foreward to your next video Oscar. 👍😀

[@HoH]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mariusmatei2946]

"small segment of China's history"? The Xinhai Revolution (1911-1912) was one of the most consequential/pivotal events in the History of China, as it marked not only the end of the 268 years of reign of the Qing Dynasty (in China), but the end of ~2200 years of Imperial China!

[@urmomismine226]

Good video a lot of valuable information

[@subhamomm5930]

Wow such a great video. I liked this very please continue to make this type of video

[@HoH]

Thank you, I will!

[@prakashghumaliya2002]

Thank you for video sir 💐💐💐👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@aarondemiri486]

always pleasantly surprised by how interesting and entertaining I find Chinese history

[@joshuamatiasrecalde5157]

Well done house of History. You are a nice guy.

[@MrGouldilocks]

Your topic selections for the last few months or so have been 100% on point. There was a stretch where I thought some of your content was a bit repetitive with things that I have seen on other content creators channels. But You're on a stretch right now where all of your videos have been fascinating and must watch.

[@salsheikh4508]

Great Episode.

[@rebralhunter6069]

Im digging the animated intros(and animations in general)! Do you do them yourself or do you hire someone. Keep them up.

[@HoH]

Thanks! I create everything myself. If you look at my recent vids you can see my kind of trial-and-error road per video towards my current animation workflow.

[@billd.iniowa2263]

@@HoH In other words, practice makes perfect. ;-) Keep it up, you're constantly producing quality videos every week. Nice work!

[@marksaxon2550]

Excellent!!!

[@catlinferris5970]

Excellent piece on resistance and revolution.. a "how to"

[@user-mn2vb6rd5f]

Its deserve a sub , not like Media nowadays lie and bias, only tell ture , respect

[@monsignor2943]

This hurt so much...

[@drswag0076]

you forgot to mention that Mongolia saw the revolution as a way to break from China and become a independent nation.

[@user-mn2vb6rd5f]

Need to thank Soviet union for that

[@basongina6404]

i love this intro

[@djcorvette8375]

Have you done anything on Manchukuo?

[@djcorvette8375]

@Welcome to Mars for lack of a better word

[@mph8759]

I can’t remember the KZbinr (Wondrium perhaps) but saw a very interesting video on downfalls of empires and how this is often triggered or at least preceded by natural disasters. (If I find the video I’ll edit this post and add the link)

[@Domhangairt]

Hallo Oscar. I enjoy your videos very much, especially the video about Stalin's Great Purge. Regarding the Fall of the Qing Dynasty, one woman was responsible for that, namely the Empress Dowager Cxi Cxi. She murdered at least two Emperors, one of whom introduced many reforms in the 1880s which would have turned China into a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament.

[@HoH]

Hi Douglas, maybe you'll be interested in this (old) video of mine about the Tongzhi restoration and self strengthening movement: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oIDZlWeQdphoh9E

[@Domhangairt]

@@HoH thanks Oscar, I certainly will.

[@johnchristiancanda3320]

Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi wasn't actually pure evil according to Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.

[@Teotihuacan22]

Seeing the blue color expanded one after another time is really encouraging. It is regret that our Republic did not go well by a sequence of misfortunes, from domestic and outside. Sigh, my nation could have been more democratic, open, prosperous, and beloved by the world.

[@larshofler8298]

No, the Communists were right. The Chinese bourgeoisie was unable to achieve their republican revolution. Decades after Sun Yat-Sen's death, China was still ruled by barbaric warlord-landlords and a fascist junta based in Nanking. Chiang Kai-shek executed and beheaded everyone within his party who was loyal to the Republican cause and sympathetic to the working class uprising led by the Communists. He also massacred ordinary people in order to grab the illegitimate power as the military dictator of China. He cracked down on the popular revolution which he cynically exploited, and led China into an era of imperialist invasions, mostly from Japan, which profoundly changed the landscape of Chinese politics. That was when people had had enough and supported the Communist side by landslide.

[@larshofler8298]

In other words, the KMT sucked and still sucks. People were forced to choose uprising.

[@mariusmatei2946]

​@@larshofler8298yeah, that the Nationalists lost China, they can thank Chiang Kai-shek, and his bourgeois backers/pals for that!

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Sun Yat Sen’s legacy shall live on.

[@jimmybirtles3800]

His command of the English language betters that of the Americans.

[@adastra5992]

@Common Sense Revolution Clarification: Slang is not taught in school and the false dichotomy of "Dems" and Republicans is what's destroying America, not "optimum language" or whatever the fuck you were trying to talk about in your grammatically confused paragraph. Not sure what your sources are or why you thought it was worth it to even try to spew your bullshit but I would suggest getting some common sense of your own before trying to start a revolution for it. Or would it be against it? If the latter, this'd make much more sense.

[@arian8466]

Here because my friend picked this shit as our topic for our politics presentation and I’m just sitting here watching this and cursing him tf in my head thx bro great choice

[@johnwalsh4857]

that is the start of the long Chinese civil war 1911 to 1949, which is still going to on this day(there is still China and Taiwan, CCP vs. KMT or CCP and KMT vs. the Taiwan independence party.

[@tengteng4076]

It was the end of foreign occupation on china

[@johnwalsh4857]

@@tengteng4076 yep 1945 was the end of the foreign occupation of China or should I say 49 when the CCP won,

[@tengteng4076]

@@johnwalsh4857 yuan dynasty and qing dynasty were foreign occupation on china in ancient times and japanese occupation in the 1940s during world war 2

[@johnwalsh4857]

@@tengteng4076 also count the troops of the Europeans and Japanese who occupied parts of China. Like the USMC had troops in China until 1949.

[@tengteng4076]

@@johnwalsh4857 well consider also the 8 nations alliance including japan for leading the way to freedom for china from 300 years of slavery and slaughter of chinese people by the qing of the manchu

[@tzufbb]

同盟会with emphasis of the H

[@MrGouldilocks]

I think a video or a series on the taiping rebellion would be Great. It cost more lives than world war I and yet the Western world knows almost nothing about it. I've seen a couple documentaries on it within the last couple years and I still feel like I have barely scratched the surface.

[@HoH]

Great suggestion Casey, I might delve into that when I finish the current videos I am editing.

[@larsbackstrom3036]

Well, this is not the whole story if I understand correctly. Pu Yi was briefly reinstated and then Yuan Shikai had himself proclaimed emperor later.

[@HoH]

Hi Lars, Yuan did indeed proclaim himself Emperor a few years later. That was not until 1915 however, I cover it in my video about China's warlord era: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYLCl5pmq8x1r8k

[@muic4880]

Puyi was reinstated for a few days by Zhang Xun in 1917, after Yuan Shi-Kai’s imperial attempts.

[@anananwar6073]

2:50

[@imnackeredsirnackered948]

There isn't very strong and easy to watch documentaries out there on china around the late 1800s to early 1900s. This is a critical era for china and almost like a game of thrones type scenario but on steroids as china would be divided into many warlords.

[@ligayamatira2164]

We Wish to Feature about the 1922 March On Rome

[@alswann2702]

Learn English fiver.

[@franciscomm7675]

Are you going to make videos about Frederick william iii of prussia?

[@pierren___]

1:40 alliance révolutionnaire

[@pierren___]

2:45 société secrète 10,000 membres-

[@pierren___]

3:08 changement tactique- subvertir les troupes de l'état

[@pierren___]

3:24 cellules révolutionnaires dans l'armée

[@pierren___]

3:28 cellules dans les villes provinciales

[@pierren___]

3:45 campagne de financement - pays riches

[@ericanthonyjones2131]

Good content but he has not studied the Chinese language., so he mispronounces the phonemes in many names of key people, organizations, and locations. I do not suggeest he needs to pronounce the Mandarin tone, but - he mispronounces Tong menghui, Yuan Shi Kai, Beijing, and others

[@tzufbb]

汉口 Han kou with emphasis on the K

[@tzufbb]

Please work on your Chinese pronunciation you need alot of practice

[@knz5893]

He was doing good enough… Video ‘s about history not language

[@alswann2702]

BFD