摘要
while affirming the leading role of the bourgeois constitutionalists in the Rights Recovery Movement before the 1911 Revolution, stresses and elucidates the important role of the bourgeois revolutionaries at the start of this movement. The essay does not agree with a number of Chinese and foreign works which describe the Rights Recovery Movement as being led by the constitutionalists alone and with no connection to the revolutionaries. It uses concrete facts to explain how the revolutionaries were a firm and dynamic force in the provincial Rights Recovery Movement and were the movement’s radicals. Moreover it was precisely under the revolutionaries’ impetus and leadership that the Sichuan Railroad Protection Movement was successfully transformed into the first step of the democratic revolution. The essay also points out the weaknesses manifested by the revolutionaries in this movement, but considers that these should not affect the factual assessment of their positive role.
while affirming the leading role of the bourgeois constitutionalists in the Rights Recovery Movement before the 1911 Revolution, stresses and elucidates the important role of the bourgeois revolutionaries at the start of this movement. The essay does not agree with a number of Chinese and foreign works which describe the Rights Recovery Movement as being led by the constitutionalists alone and with no connection to the revolutionaries. It uses concrete facts to explain how the revolutionaries were a firm and dynamic force in the provincial Rights Recovery Movement and were the movement’s radicals. Moreover it was precisely under the revolutionaries’ impetus and leadership that the Sichuan Railroad Protection Movement was successfully transformed into the first step of the democratic revolution. The essay also points out the weaknesses manifested by the revolutionaries in this movement, but considers that these should not affect the factual assessment of their positive role.
