A synopsis of the international symposium in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the 1911 Revolution

Abstract

The International Symposium in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the 1911 Revolution was held in Wuhan from 12 to 15 October 2011. Participants engaged in lively discussions around the following significant academic issues: the dilemma of the New Policy Reform of the Qing, the background of the 1911 Revolution, its historical process, the intellectual circles during the 1911 Revolution, politics and society, the main players, finance and economics during the revolutionary period, centennial memory and reinterpretations, and the historical meaning and legacy of the 1911 Revolution. The current article is a synopsis of the symposium.

Keywords:

• 1911 Revolution
• New Policy Reform
• early Republican period
• centennial commemoration
• conference synopsis

Notes

^†Wang Ruiqing, Kan Yuxiang, Zhang Rongjie and Quan Weixin, graduate students at the Institute of Chinese Modern History, Central China Normal University, also contributed to this article.