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The Huaxinghui (), commonly translated as the China Revival Society or China Arise Society, was founded by Huang Xing and Zhang Shizhao on 15 February 1904 with the election of Huang Xing as its president, in Changsha of Hunan for the explicit political goal of overthrowing the Qing dynasty and establishing a democratic and free country. Many of its members later became key figures of the Tongmenghui.

Key facts

Organization.name
China Revival Society
Organization.native_name
華興會华兴会
Organization.native_name_lang
zh
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Organization.caption
China Revival Society leaders. Photo shot in 1905 in Tokyo. First row left: Huang Xing, fourth from left: Song Jiaoren
Organization.merged
Tongmenghui
Organization.founder
Huang Xing
Organization.founding_location
Changsha, Hunan
Organization.type
Revolutionary organization
Organization.headquarters
Changsha
Organization.leader_name
Huang Xing

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The Huaxinghui (), commonly translated as the China Revival Society or China Arise Society, was founded by Huang Xing and Zhang Shizhao on 15 February 1904 with the election of Huang Xing as its president, in Changsha of Hunan for the explicit political goal of overthrowing the Qing dynasty and establishing a democratic and free country. Many of its members later became key figures of the Tongmenghui.

==Background== In 1903, Russian Empire made seven requests to the Qing Dynasty in an attempt to invade and occupy Northeast China. This action shook Japan. The Asahi Shimbun first published this news, and the Chinese students studying in Japan held a student conference at the Kinkikwan () in Tokyo. In early June, Huang Xing returned to China from Japan as an "athlete" of the Army and National Education Association () and planned new actions in Hunan and Hubei. On November 4, 1903, in the name of celebrating his 30th birthday, Huang Xing invited Liu Kuiyi (), Song Jiaoren, Zhang Shizhao and others to hold a secret meeting at the home of Peng Yuanxun (), Baojia Bureau Lane, West District of Changsha, and decided to organize an anti-Qing revolutionary group to name "Huaxinghui", and called it "Huaxing Company" () to the outside. its strategy was to launch a war in Hunan, and the provinces respond to "go straight to Youyan" ().

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