The 100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution is commemorated across China
This year marks the centenary of the 1911 Revolution that ended 2,000 years of imperial rule in China. The 1911 Revolution, which began on October 10, 1911, with an armed uprising in Wuchang, central China's Hubei Province, brought down the world's most long established monarchy and founded the first republican government in Asia.