The Chance Meeting of a Lifetime in Sino-Japanese Politics during the Xinhai Revolution: the Historical Significance of the Relationship between Shanqi and Kawashima Naniwa

摘要

In reviewing the historic relations between China and Japan, it is clear that they have had a much closer relationship with each other than they have had with other countries. Against the large political backdrop of both countries, there is no question that research on the important roles enacted by historical figures that transcended national politics is of immense academic importance. Shanqi and Kawashima became acquainted during the confusion of the late Qing period, well before the Xinhai Revolution, and deepened their acquaintance during the period of the new government through military police. After the Xinhai Revoluton, the two became aware of similarities in their political ideals andsocial position, and subsequently planned the liberation of Manchuria that ended in failure. Seen over the passage of time from pre-Xinhai Revolution to post-Xinhai Revolution, the dramatic fate of the Shanqi and Kawashima Naniwa, both tossed in the waves of history, and their friendship through political practice, it is immediately clear in the process of investigation that there was a mutual recognition of the troubles they each embraced during the historical revolution. Does this reflect the indivisibility of national interest and the political fate of individuals, or does in represent thehistorical move of Japan's foreign expansion amidst the complexities of the political state of the late Qing/early Min period in the early twentieth century?