What was the revolution that led to the first Chinese republic? And how does the Communist Party view it…

Sunday is the 110th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, an uprising that began in Hubei province and marked the end of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule and the beginning of a new China. What was the Xinhai Revolution? After a series of failed uprisings, the revolution began in 1911, a year known as Xinhai in the traditional Chinese calendar, and saw the fall of the last imperial dynasty, the Qing. The 275-year Manchu-dominated empire had been stagnating in its final decades, falling behind Western imperial powers and the modernising Japanese state in areas such as commerce, industry and…