Rough Talk on the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement

Author: Zeng Shaomin
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: The Sichuan Railway Protection Movement is characterized by its prominent feature of popular anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggles. After the establishment of the Sichuan Railway Protection League, the entire province's people joined the tide of "striving for railway rights," driving the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement to reach its climax. From mass gatherings, protests, and petitions to strikes, resistance against grain and tax levies, and even violent incidents of opposing the Qing Dynasty's rule, all highlighted the Sichuan people's patriotic spirit against imperialism and feudalism, as well as their fervent commitment to pursuing modernization. The Sichuan Railway Protection Movement is a renowned event in the Xinhai Revolution and has always been a subject of attention. After the founding of New China, scholars in the field of history have made breakthroughs in researching the history of the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement. Professor Wei Yingtao, a famous historian, wrote "The History of the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement" in the early 1980s, comprehensively and systematically discussing the occurrence, development, and evolution of the movement, proposing highly insightful academic views. It has been praised by scholars at home and abroad as a "masterpiece in studying the history of the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement," and this book draws heavily on the academic achievements of that work. Based on reading existing works on the history of the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement, the author has illustrated important historical facts of the movement through comics, hence the title of this book, "Comics on the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement."