From A Feudalism Governor Into A Firm Soldier Of Counter-Yuan

Cen Chunxuan was a man of the hour in the political areafrom the end of the Qing to the beginning of the Republic ofChina, and also was a complex historical personage. Becauseonce escorted Ci xi Queen mother and Guangxu Emperor to Xi'an,he held the post of the official to Sichuan governor, Guangdongand Guangxi governor, postal biography Shangshu. Cen Yuying,his father, once held the post of Yunnan and Kweichow governor.Cen Chunxuan was his younger brother, he once has also held thepost of the Hunan governor. Three men in a family held the postof the official governor in the end of the Qing, this kind ofthing is really rare. He was once dismissed from his officebecause of his-struggling for the power against Yi kuang andYuan Shikai during the period of Cen Chunxuan holding the postof postal biography Shangshu in 1907. After the Wuchang Prising,he was appointed as Fujian xuan wei shi in 1912 by Yuan Shikai,and the next year as an administrator of railroad of Wuhan,Gangdong, Sichuan. Before the second revolution occurring, hesend a telegram to Yuan Shikai with Wang Zhixiang and othersin Shanghai. In the telegram, he requested that we should solvethe conflicts between north and south peacefully. But Yuanshikai rejected it, Cen chunxuan was dismissed from office.From that, he joined the mighty current of struggling againstYuan Shikai. Several decades of upside-and-downs in officialcircles, he rushed out of the camp rampart of feudalism witha feudalism tail, and became a firm soldier ofcounter-Yuan. Before the movement of Wuxu Reform, he was anofficial with reform thoughts. After the eruption of Wuchang Uprising, he was a partner with "the will is different, thepurpose is the same sometimes" with revolutionary faction.During the period of movement of protecting the country, he wasthe main general of counter-Yuan. In the period of protectinglaw movement, he also was a positive participant.In the past, the research of Cen Chunxuan was insufficientin the history, and the opinions of appraisal of him werevarious. Some praised him as a hero of counter-Yuan, otherstotally scolded him, thinking that he was a congenialpolitician. This article analyzed Cen Chunxuan in the differentstages based on the foundation of rich materials in order tomake a fair and just appraisal for his political attitudetowards the 1911 Revolution.This article contains five parts:The foreword has partially outlined the origin and thesignificance of the selection of this article' s topic and thepresent research situation of this topic in the academiccircles;The first part mainly elaborated the process and thereasons why he turned from a governor of border province intoa reformer and his reform measures during his serve;The second part mainly analyzed in five aspects the processand the reasons why he turned his attitude from a reformer intoa republican. Cen Chunxuan played a positive historical roleduring "the second revolution", the movement of defending thecountry and the law.The third part made an objective and fair appraisal to CenChunxuan as well as his patriotism mainstream and enlightenedthoughts which moved along with the trend of the times, and alsosimultaneously outlined his limitations of his thoughts. Conclusion partially made an entire summery about thisarticle.