HIS280Y1 Lecture : The Republican Period, 1911-1949.docx
Document Summary
The warlord era, 1916-1927 or 1937: reasons for the collapse of the republic, the creation of the communist party of china, the first united front, 1924-1927. The anti-japanese war and the second united front. The civil war, and communist victory in 1949. Fiscal and military decentralization after the taiping rebellion and its ramifications: less and less of the money of the empire was being channelled to the central state. The end of the civil examination system and the emergence of the press. It became clear in the late 19th and early 20th century that the kind of knowledge you learned from the examination system wasn"t the kind of information you needed to operate a modern capitalist system. In its place emerge new style schools and the press. The imperial level of overall organization disintegrates, and the nation emerges as the best candidate to replace it: this is why 1911 marked the end of the imperial period.
