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World War Civ 17a: The 1911 Chinese Revolution pt1

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Coming of the Great Rebellion

There are two types of transliteration, right? There's pin yin and there's Wade Giles. So Wade Giles is like more it looks more beautiful to our eyes, but the Chinese government went for pin yin. Modern transliteration all uses pin yin, which I think is like the Q is a CH, the ZH is a J. The Russell Japanese war had an electrifying effect throughout Asia. We regarded the Russian defeat by Japan as the defeat of the West by the East. And these Chinese nationalists were surprisingly stirred by the Boer War.

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