1911-1912년도 중국의 신해혁명 辛亥革命 . China's Revolution 1911-1912, by Edwin J. Dingle
AUTHOR'S NOTE
This volume is a popular history of the Revolution in China that broke out at Wuchang,
Hankow, and Hanyang in October of 1911. The narrative contains a good deal of new
information touching upon revolutionism in China, and the events leading up to the present
climax. The magnitude of this Revolution cannot possibly be understood yet; but this volume
is written in the hope that it will enable the student otherwise untutored to understand much
that one absorbs in Chinese life.
When the Revolution broke out, I was residing in Hankow. Throughout the war I remained
in Hankow, leaving this centre for Shanghai during the days when the Peace Conference was
held in that city. I am a personal friend of the leader of the Revolution, General Li Yuan Hung,
and, by virtue of having all the time been in possession of much exclusive information from
behind the political curtain, am probably equipped to write of the main doings of the Revolution
in that area where its effects were most marked. On the very eve of the Revolution, a book
written by myself was published simultaneously in England and America, which contains some
strangely prophetic utterances, and will give the reader who has not made Chinese politics a
study a general idea of the condition of the country when the Revolution made the scales drop
from the eyes of her teeming millions.[1]
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I wish gratefully to acknowledge the kind offices of Mr. Thos. F. Millard, editor of the
China Press, for allowing me free use of the columns of that journal. Much of my information
has been culled from the C.P., although many of the articles were written by myself for that
newspaper, whilst the war was in progress; but I am largely indebted to that paper also for
many of my general later facts.
Especially also do I wish to thank the Rev. Bernard Upward, of Hankow, for the assistance
he has rendered me whilst this volume was being prepared. The chapter entitled "Some
Revolution Factors" is from Mr. Upward's pen, as is also that headed "Yuan Shih K'ai"; many
of the illustrations shown in the volume also are reproductions from Mr. Upward's splendid
collection. My warm thanks are also due to Mr. Stanley V. Boxer, B.Sc., for the drawings from
which the two maps embodied in this volume were prepared, and for the explanatory note
accompanying the sketch map of the battlefields.
It should, perhaps, in fairness to myself, be mentioned that, owing to absence from
England, I have not had an opportunity of reading the proof-sheets before this volume was
printed.
EDWIN J. DINGLE.
HANKOW, HUPEH, CHINA. April 1, 1912.