A Sudden Look Back Explained

A Sudden Look Back
Author:Chen Tianhua
Publisher:Japan Tokyo Press
Pub Date:1903[1]

A Sudden Look Back[2] or Suddenly Turn Around[3], also translated as Sudden Awakening,[4] Sudden Enlightenment,[5] is a propaganda pamphlet[6] written by Chen Tianhua.[7] It was originally published in Tokyo in 1903[8] as an anti-Manchu pamphlet.[9]

A Sudden Look Back accuses the Western powers of invading China, states to the Chinese people the crisis facing China, points out that the Qing government has become the "royal court of the foreigners".[10] It further criticizes the rescue of the emperor to establish a constitution, propagates the anti-imperialist and anti-Manchu revolution, and establishes a democratic republican system.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Harold Schiffrin. Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution. 1970. University of California Press. 978-0-520-01752-8. 279–.
  2. Book: Kenneth James Hammond. Kristin Stapleton. The Human Tradition in Modern China. 2008. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-7425-5466-5. 87–.
  3. Book: Qizhi Zhang. An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture. 15 April 2015. Springer. 978-3-662-46482-3. 425–.
  4. Book: Ching-hwang Yen. Ethnicities, Personalities And Politics In The Ethnic Chinese Worlds. 18 August 2016. World Scientific. 978-981-4603-03-4. 578–.
  5. Book: Pingyuan Chen. A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920). 28 January 2021. Springer Nature. 978-981-334-889-9. 246–.
  6. Book: Elisabeth Kaske. The Politics of Language in Chinese Education: 1895 - 1919. 2008. Brill Publishers. 978-90-04-16367-6. 166–.
  7. Book: Engin F. Isin. Peter Nyers. Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies. 27 June 2014. Routledge. 978-1-136-23796-6. 368–.
  8. Book: Edward J. M. Rhoads. Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928. 1 May 2017. University of Washington Press. 978-0-295-99748-3. 13–.
  9. Book: Yu Zhang. Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China: Bonds and Boundaries. 13 December 2017. Lexington Books. 978-1-4985-5786-3. 151–.
  10. Book: Chinese Cultural Dictionary. 2001. Wuhan University Press. 978-7-307-02862-3.
  11. Book: Dictionary of Chinese History: Qing History Volume (II). Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House.

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