Luo Pei-jin Around The Revolution Of 1911

The paper elaborates Luo Pei-jin's thoughts and activities of his whole life and tries to show the famous bourgeois democratic revolutionist's ideology and deeds which has almost been forgotten in front of the people.Influenced by Chinese traditional nationalism and stimulated by the social reality of domestic trouble and foreign invasion,he had grown up to be a bourgeois democratic revolutionist from Xiucai in the late Qing Dynasty.He renounced the pen for the sword and went to Japan to study military knowledge.Having been cultivated by western bourgeois political theory and made the acquaintance of some leaders of bourgeois democratic revolutionary such as Sun Yat-sen and Huang Hsing,so he joined the United League and then began to revolt.Thus he became an unwavering bourgeois democratic revolutionist.In 1909,Luo came back from Japan to Yunnan.Basing in Yunnan Military Academy and Training School for the Small Army, he actively cultivated revolutionary forces and took part in organizing and led "the uprising on Double Ninth Festival"in Yunnan. Therefore,he made indelible contributions to the victory in the Revolution of 1911 in Yunnan.After the Revolution of 1911 was succeeded,Luo filled the chief of the military-political government and the chief of Yunnan civil administration in order of priority.Later he lived at home and didn't want to occupy a position.However,Yuan Shi-kai tried to restore the imperial throne.As a result,Luo developed to struggle against Yuan. He took part in planning,organizing and led the National Protection Movement.He fought in the frontline at Lu Zhou and Na Xi for 27 days and nights,and performed immortal feats of the victory in the National Protection Movement. When Cai E went to Japan to see a doctor,Luo Pei-jin acted Sichuan Provincial Military Governor as deputy.Duan Qi-rui plotted to disrupt the political situation in Sichuan Province,Luo became a victim for the Military Force Unified Policy of Duan's.Tang Ji-yao announced to take part in the Campaign to Uphold the Provisional Constitution against the Northern Warlords.Luo didn't want to ruin Sichuan,so he abandoned his position.After Gu Pin-zhen drove away Tang,Luo helped him.After Gu was defeated,Luo was killed,and thus this puts an end to his tragic life.