两千年的君主专制曾给中国带来稳定和辉煌,但是进入近代以后,家天下的君主专制越来越不适应中国需要。1894年的甲午战争,1904年的日俄战争,前后不到十年,一个君主立宪的“小日本”相继打败中国与俄国两个巨大的君主专制国家。这个残酷事实不能不引起中国人心灵上的巨大震动。走向君宪,成为那一代中国人的唯一政治选项。然而到了1911年,当君宪主义即将成为事实时,一个规模不大的军事哗变,竟然在一夜之间掀翻了一个具 Two thousand years of monarchy have brought stability and glory to China, but after entering the modern era, monarchy in the world has become increasingly unsuited to China’s needs. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, less than a decade before and the constitutional “small Japan” of a monarchy successively defeated two huge monarchy countries, China and Russia. This brutal reality can not but arouse the great Chinese people’s spiritual shock. To Junxian, the only political option for that generation of Chinese. However, by 1911, when constitutionalism was about to become a reality, a small military mutiny unexpectedly overturned overnight