The politics of rights and the 1911 Revolution in China / Xiaowei Zheng.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the political transformation of 1911 -- Sichuan and the old regime -- Constitutional reformers and their ideas : equality (pingdeng), people's rights (minquan), and popular sovereignty (minzhu) -- The project : the Chuan-Han Railway Company and the new policies reform -- Can two sides walk together without agreeing to meet? : constitutionalists and officials in the late Qing constitutional reform -- The rhetoric of revolution : national sovereignty (guoquan), constitutionalism (lixian), and the rights of the people (minquan) -- The practice of revolution : mobilization, expansion, and radicalization -- The expansion and division of revolution : democracy in paradox -- The end of revolution : the rise of republicanism and the failure of constitutionalism -- Conclusion : the legacies of the 1911 Revolution.

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China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially sanctioned cultural credentials and for their mastery of new ideas. The revolution they spearheaded produced a new, democratic political culture that enshrined national sovereignty, constitutionalism, and the rights of the people as indisputable principles. Based upon previously untapped Qing and Republican sources, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is a nuanced and colorful chronicle of the revolution as it occurred in local and regional areas. Xiaowei Zheng explores the ideas that motivated the revolution, the popularization of those ideas, and their animating impact on the Chinese people at large. The focus of the book is not on the success or failure of the revolution, but rather on the transformative effect that revolution has on people and what they learn from it.

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