The 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty, and led to the establishment of the Republic of China. The revolution was the culmination of a decade of agitation, revolts, and uprisings. Its success marked the collapse of the Chinese monarchy, the end of over two millennia of imperial rule in China and the 200-year reign of the Qing, and the beginning of China's early republican era.
The Qing had struggled for a long time to reform the government and resist foreign aggression, but the program of reforms after 1900 was opposed by conservatives in the Qing court as too radical and by reformers as too slow. Several factions, including underground anti-Qing groups, revolutionaries in exile, reformers who wanted to save the monarchy by modernizing it, and activists across the country debated how or whether to overthrow the Qing dynasty. The flash-point came on 10 October 1911, with the Wuchang Uprising, an armed rebellion among members of the New Army. Similar revolts then broke out spontaneously around the country, and revolutionaries in all provinces of the country renounced the Qing dynasty. On 1 November 1911, the Qing court appointed Yuan Shikai (leader of the powerful Beiyang Army) as prime minister, and he began negotiations with the revolutionaries.
In Nanjing, revolutionary forces created a provisional coalition government. On 1 January 1912, the National Assembly declared the establishment of the Republic of China, with Sun Yat-sen, leader of the Tongmenghui (United League), as President of the Republic. A brief civil war between the North and the South ended in compromise. Sun would resign in favor of Yuan, who would become President of the new national government, if Yuan could secure the abdication of the Qing emperor. The edict of abdication of the six-year-old Xuantong Emperor, was promulgated on 12 February 1912. Yuan was sworn in as president on 10 March 1912.
In December 1915, Yuan restored the monarchy and proclaimed himself as the Hongxian Emperor, but the move was met with strong opposition from the population and the Army, leading to his abdication in March 1916 and the reinstatement of the Republic. Yuan's failure to consolidate a legitimate central government before his death in June 1916 led to decades of political division and warlordism, including an attempt at imperial restoration of the Qing dynasty.
The revolution is named Xinhai because it occurred in 1911, the year of the Xinhai (辛亥) stem-branch in the sexagenary cycle of the traditional Chinese calendar. The governments of Taiwan and China both consider themselves the legitimate successors to the 1911 Revolution and honor the ideals of the revolution including nationalism, republicanism, modernization of China and national unity. 10 October is the National Day of the Republic of China on Taiwan, and the Anniversary of the 1911 Revolution in the PRC.
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Just some rambling mostly about work, but some relationship stuff too
Slight Dandadan spoiler
Wow, just like me! Ok, that's my prisoner of the moment/hype reference lol.
These past few days I've having some dips in energy and today was more of the same. Work is just wearing on me and it just feels like more and more is being asked of me. I kind expected it since its the thing most companies do. And the writing has been on the wall for a while. Aside from managing the store the company wants me and other leads to help out with help tickets from within the company.
And it was all fine and well at first. We were really only giving an already existing team a hand with tickets. Slowly that team was downsized until finally just about everyone was either laid off or moved to other projects. Even the project manager that stayed on is "splitting" time between this project and another new project. I put quotes because he's pretty much only been focusing on the newer project. So now us leads are the team handling this and recently we also added our employees. Here's the thing. Not all of them are really equipped to handle this sort of thing and then you also have a situation where a few stores are incredibly high volume. So tickets often back up because there just one other person aside from myself that is any good at answering these tickets.
Today was another busy day at my store and I'm checking my emails and I'm seeing emails that are coming directly from at least one of the people that submitted. I hadn't checked the queue in a couple days, but when I check it I see a bunch of open tickets that no one has answered. And its just like... ugh. So fucking tired of this shit. That's on top of having to answer some questions about work was messed up by my team. And its like it stuck out like a sore thumb because we by far and away had the most screw ups. And I've been trying to drill the need for attention to detail to my team and I've been really lenient while still trying to teach, but fuck... its just wearing on me.
Also still on the fence about my relationship with my crush. Or maybe just unsure. IDK. Maybe I just need to find some more definition for what it is we are. Not that I myself am trying to fit whatever we are into a neat package, but it just feels like such an amorphous flirty friendship maybe relationship thing right now. Thinking I should just see if she wants to hang out again and see if we can take a moment to talk about "us". I haven't really been as tough on myself or as self conscious so I don't think I'm really feeling down about this, its more just that I have this in the back of my mind along with all the other stuff that is happening at work.