The National University of Peking under the chancellorship of Ts'ai Yuan-Pei, 1917-1926

Abstract

It is generally recognized that modern China's intellectual and social revolution took place after the establishment of the Republic in 1912 and not before. Although in 1911 the Hsin-hai Kê-ming had brought an end to China's old order, the revolution had been little more than political. Basically the Chinese people had not changed much in outlook and attitude; the lao-pai-hsing perhaps looked on the kê-ming as another dynastic change in which the alien Manchus were being replaced once again by the Han people.