辛亥革命是自1840年鸦片战争起,中国逐渐变为半殖民地半封建社会以后,国内矛盾和斗争发展的结果。中国人民从鸦片战争起就前仆后继地进行了反帝反封建的民主革命,“而辛亥革命,则是在比较更完全的意义上开始了这个革命”。从1840年鸦片战争到1911年辛亥革命,中间经过七十年,资本主义列强发动过五次侵略中国的战争;战争的结果,它们迫使中国和它们签订了一系列的不平等条约,除割地 The Revolution of 1911 is the result of the development of internal conflicts and struggles since the Opium War in 1840 and the gradual transformation of China into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. Since the Opium War, the Chinese people have staged an anti-imperialist and anti-feudal democratic revolution. “The Revolution of 1911, on the other hand, started the revolution in a more complete sense.” From the Opium War of 1840 to the Revolution of 1911, after seventy years in between, the capitalist powers launched five wars of invading China; as a result of the war, they forced China to sign a series of unequal treaties with them,