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The Second Revolution in China, 1913. First edition, first printing, of this extensively illustrated account of the 1913 uprising by Sun Yat-sen's republican alliance against the central government. This so-called "Second Revolution", while eventually quashed, deepened the cause of republicanism that would eventually birth Sun's famous Kuomintang party.After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, the 1913 election delivered Sun Yat-sen's political grouping a strong parliamentary mandate, energising his plans for the creation of a parliamentary democracy. This victory threatened the political ambitions of the President of the Republic, Yuan Shikai, who aspired to revive a pseudo-imperial political system with himself at the head of a powerful executive. Following Sun's victory, Yuan's supporters, likely with his explicit approval, arranged the assassination of Song Jiaoren, Sun's political ally who had masterminded the parliamentary victory. When Sun's parliamentary majority blocked Yuan's plans to raise foreign loans for his own aggrandisement, Yuan responded by outlawing the party, sparking an uprising by Sun's followers and troops under the command of seven provincial governors.The present work begins with details of the fighting around Shanghai, as well as an account of the work of the Chinese Red Cross with the wounded from both sides. Further chapters, illustrated with detailed maps, cover assaults by the rebels on the Jiangnan Arsenal and the Wusong Forts, and their even

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