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| | Encyclopedia: Wuchang Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The Wuchang Uprising (æ¦æèµ·ç¾©, pinyin: WÇ”chÄng QÇyì) of October 10, 1911, started the Xinhai Revolution, which triggered the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and establishment of the Republic of China. |
 | | At the time, the city of Wuchang, on the Yangtze River in the province of Hubei, had the most modernized military industry, so it became the site where weapons and other military equipment for the New Army was manufactured. |
 | | Wuchang (Chinese: x6B66;昌; pinyin: Wǔchāng) is one of the three towns, together with Hankou and Hanyang, which are included in modern day Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei province, in China. |
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