Question

Which of these is the most accurate description of China just prior to the outbreak of World War I?

• A. Empress Dowager Cixi relinquished control of China to Sun Yat-sen.
• B. The Chinese Republic was on the brink of destruction by warlords.
• C. The final emperor Pu Yi abdicated and China became a republic.
• D. The Boxer Rebellion culminated in the end of British involvement in China.
• E. The Qing Dynasty came to an end, making way for the next dynasty to rise in its place.

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

The final emperor Pu Yi abdicated and China became a republic.

In 1912, the final Chinese emperor Pu Yi abdicated his power after the Chinese revolution of 1911 had established a republic under liberal reformer Sun Yat-Sen Pu Yi was the twelfth and final ruler of the Qing dynasty, ending China's long history of dynastic cycles begun in the pre- classical era.