On Mr.Wu Yannan's Researches In The History Of The 1911 Revolution

It was the study of the 1911 Revolution history that was one of the main contents of Mr. Wu Yannan's academic research. Mr. Wu Yannan had made remarkable achievement on the research of the history of the 1911 Revolution. The principal contradiction of the Chinese society during the 1911 Revolution, he thought , after the Yihetuan Movement failed, on one hand caused the contradiction of the Yihetuan's patriotic campaign not to be solved , the invasion of imperialism to China had been strengthened further; because the Yihetuan Movement had attacked imperialism and gave a heavy blow to its conspiracy, on the other hand, imperialism had to take a milder way to invade China, which demonstrated that the contradiction inside the Chinese society was very sharp . The principal contradiction of the Chinese society of the 1911 Revolution period , different to some extent with the Yihetuan Movement, included not only a principal contradiction against feudalism, but the Chinese people's contradiction with the alliance of imperialism and the feudal rulers. He put forward early and clearly his theory of "contradiction among alliances", which formed the third kind of view of principal contradiction of the Chinese society about the 1911 Revolution period, and established the foundation towards an unanimous opinion. He became the third kind of main representatives of academic views. About the issue of the relation between the revolutionaries of the bourgeoisie with peasants, he thought, peasants were the natural alliances with the bourgeoisie and the main social pillar, both sides had a common demand that was to object the rule of the imperialism and the feudalism, the guiding principle of the revolutionary group became the political foundation of the two alliances; Revolutionaries had attention in various degree on the problem of peasants, "equalization of landownership "reflected the request of peasants' towards land to a certain extent; Through secret organizations, the revolutionaries set up a special connection with the broad masses of workers and peasants, the two formed a kind of relation of loose revolutionary alliances. Peasantry's alliance with the revolutionaries of the bourgeoisie made an important role in the victory of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. His argumentation supported and enriched the theory of revolutionary alliance. Mr. Wu Yannan had comparatively deep study on other problems of the 1911 Revolution history, such as secret organizations ,mass uprising, evaluation of persons, the social ideological trend of the 1911 Revolution period and the duality influence of Confucianism on the 1911 Revolution, etc. He had made a positive and definite appraisal in status and historical significance of the secret organizations, and made himself important in the academic field. He followed the basic principle of historical materialism, made a concrete analysis of the different questions, not affected bypersons , offered positive and definite appraisal to Huang Xing, Zhang Taiyan and Song Jiaoren who were usually controversial and suffered from lower assessment. He analyzed the impact on the 1911 Revolution of Confucianism in terms of culture, which expanded the research field of the 1911 Revolution history. This was of great novelty. Mr. Wu Yannan, a contemporary famous historian in our country, became known in the research of the history of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, famous in the 1911 Revolution history and left behind a good reputation in the study of China's modern social ideological trend. The study of the history of the 1911 revolution facilitate him in the study of the modern research of social ideological trend and traditional Confucianism of China and made enormous success. The study of the history of the 1911 revolution had got an important status that forms a connecting link in his whole academic research. Mr. Wu Yannan paid extreme attention on the study of documents and materials while studied the history of the 1911 Revolution. He was good at absorbing the research results and was bold in creativity an...