EAS105H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Zhou Enlai, Chen Duxiu, May Fourth Movement
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Interest in western forms of government was growing as people asked how european powers and japan had gained wealth and power. Went to hong kong to study western medicine, completing his degree. In hk, he and his friends began discussing the advantages of republic. The best way to overthrow the manchus, they concluded, would be to ally with the secret societies so pervasive in south china. Sun set up the first two chapters of the revive china society in hawaii and hong. He also but off his queue and began wearing western clothes in 1896. Began to think that china would skip ahead of the west by going directly to a more progressive form of government. New military academies were set up and new armies formed, trained by german or. Yuan shikai emerged as the most powerful general, serving as both commander or the. Northern army and head of the baoding military academy in 1901.
