The Revolutionary Army

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The Revolutionary Army
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The Revolutionary Army (

Manchu government and set up a Republic of China by revolutionary means.[7]

In 1902, Zou Rong went to Japan to study, influenced by Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary ideas, and devoted himself to the democratic revolutionary struggle. During his stay in Japan, Zou wrote a book of more than 20,000 words entitled The Revolutionary Army, in which he systematically elaborated on the object, nature, tasks and future of the democratic revolution.[8]

From 1903, The Revolutionary Army was reprinted in 29 editions in Shanghai, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and the United States, with more than 1 million copies distributed, accounting for the first place in the sales of revolutionary books during the late Qing dynasty.[9]

The Revolutionary Army was the first work in

Modern Chinese history that systematically and clearly propagated democratic ideas, republican revolution and called for the creation of a democratic republic,[10] and played a catalytic role in the Chinese democratic revolution.[11] Zhang Shizhao praised the book as "the first textbook for the national people today".[12]

John Lust's The Revolutionary Army. A Chinese Nationalist Tract of 1903 (The Hague: Mouton; Matériaux Pour L'étude De L'extrême-Orient Moderne Et Contemporain. Textes ; 6, 1968) offers the Chinese text, English translation, an extensive Introduction, and detailed notes.

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