1911 for China was marked with several uprisings, the most prominent among them being the Xinhai Revolution and the Wuchang uprising.
In southern China, infiltration of the royal army was seen as a standard strategy for staging a revolt. The revolutionaries formed several book-clubs across southern China. These book clubs were in fact the perfect guise to fool prying eyes and worked as the backyard of the revolutionaries. By 1911, around 6,000 members of the army belonged to various revolutionary groups. After stocking enough ammunition, members of various secret revolutionary groups rioted against the Qing dynasty. This incident is known as the Xinhai Revolution.
The October 10, 1911, Wuchang Uprising that led to the collapse of China’s 2,100-year-old imperial rule literally arose out of an accident. Revolutionaries in Wuchang, Hubei Province were building bombs, one of which inadvertently exploded, giving their plot away. Knowing they faced death if caught, they immediately set in motion military actions in south and central China that resulted in a wave of strategic victories. At first, the revolt was considered merely the latest in a series of mutinies in southern China and was widely expected to be quickly suppressed. But, because the Qing court failed to respond promptly, provincial assemblies in many southern provinces rapidly declared independence from the Qing government and allegiance to the rebellion.
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