Background
The Wuchang Uprising unfolded on October 10, 1911, and marked the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution. Turmoils in the frontier regions of China began to spread.
The revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen insisted on "getting rid of the Tartars" and rejected the Manchus, creating a new regime based completely on the Han dominated China proper. The multiculturalism in China began to experience crisis on collapsing (Sun Yat-sen later discovered the motto to be inappropriate, and modified it). It was one of the mistakes made by Sun Yat-sen.
Read more about this topic: Xinhai Lhasa Turmoil
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