辛亥革命中上海立宪派的转变和对革命的贡献

Constitutionalists in Shanghai:Conversion in and Contributions to Revolution of 1911

上海绅商阶层多为立宪派,在清廷"预备立宪"诏书颁布后,他们掀起宪政运动,三次派代表赴北京请愿。辛亥革命期间,立宪派认清了清廷顽固坚持封建专制体制的意图,对清廷完全失望;这时上海的革命派大力宣传革命,积极争取,立宪派纷纷转入革命队伍。上海绅商积极从事革命活动,并以其雄厚的经济力量支持了革命政权。上海绅商的表现是与上海特殊的经济政治地位有联系的。历史证明,上海革命派积极策动、争取立宪派加入革命是正确的策略。

Most gentlemen and businessmen in Shanghai were constitutionalists. After the Qing government proclaimed its adopting of the constitutional politics in 1906, they launched the movement of constitutionalism and sent representatives three times to Beijing to file petitions. During the Revolution of 1911, the constitutionalists, seeing through the intention of the Qing government as stubbornly adhering to the feudal autocratic system, were totally disappointed with the latter; influenced by the revolutionaries in Shanghai, most of these constitutionalists converted to the revolutionary side, thereby providing substantial financial support for the new revolutionary regime. Their conversion in and contributions to the Revolution were closely related to the special status of Shanghai economically and politically, and history has proved that the revolutionaries were right in persuading the constitutionalists into joining them.