Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928Open access edition: DOI 10. 6069 9780295997483 China's 1911 12 Revolution, which overthrew a 2000 year succession of dynasties, is thought of primarily as a change in governmental style, from imperial to republican, traditional to modern. But given that the dynasty that was overthrown the Qing was that of a minority ethnic group that had ruled China's Han majority for nearly three centuries, and that the revolutionaries were overwhelmingly Han, to