Sun Jatsen, društveni reformator i kineska revolucija 1911.
Sun Yat-sen, social reformer and Chinese revoultion of 1911.

Summary/Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, Asia experienced radical and irreversible changes. The period was marked by several conflicts: the Sino-French War (1884), the Sino-Japanese War (1894) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904‒1905), but also by two uprisings in China itself, the Taiping Rebellion (1850‒1864) and the Boxer Rebellion (1900). China found itself in an unenviable position. It was losing both its influence and its territories. The world powers of the time began to develop a strategy according to which a plan was made to divide China and take as many of its resourses and as much of its wealth as possible. All the conflicts that China lost since the Opium Wars imposed unequal treaties, whose terms it struggled hard to fulfil. The impoverishment of the country and the people, hopelessness, shame caused by military defeats, loss of self-confidence, unfounded glorification of ”Western“ values, self-humiliation, natural disasters, a spirit of inferiority in relation to other more successful countries, etc., were only part of what was happening in Chinese society. That is why the role of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 is considered to be crucial for the radical change in the Chinese reality. The establishment of the Republic of China, and the importance of Sun Yat-sen in that historic event, is essential for understanding Chinese modernity.

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