El fin de la época imperial: el enfrentamiento de los poderes revolucionarios y la República de China de 1912

Abstract

The article aims to delve into the unknown republican period of China before 1949, starting in the era of the great popular revolutions of the nineteenth century and ending with the proclamation of the New China. An era in which they went from traditionalist Confucian models of thought to others of Marxist-Leninist style with collectivist dyes; from the imperial model of government to a republic of Soviet cote, passing through turbulent times of warlords in an almost feudal way, who administered their own justice and sometimes used their own laws and currency, outside the central government. With these brushstrokes we will try to explain how the imperial power began to falter and the causes that caused this collapse to reach the establishment of the republican model in the hands of the Guomindang, which for thirty-seven years would be the one to administer the millenary Asian country. A historical period characterized by political instability, internal struggles, ideological purges and the search for new aesthetic conceptions that would direct the future of the new and emerging country that was being forged.