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An Analysis of the External Conditions for the Hubei New Army to Rise in the 1911 Revolution—Also Comparing with the Northern New Army ? TONG Shu-qin ? The Hubei new army was a modernized army guarding Hubei and Hunan and surrounding areas. But it was the soldiers of this very army (including some low and middle ranking officers) who turned the gun round against their own side and rang out the first shots in the 1911 revolution. For nearly a hundred of years, people had kept wondering that why the guarders cultivated by Qing court eventually varied into the gravedigger of their own government, and what were the factors that led to such a large number of soldiers of the Hubei new army threw themselves into the revolution? Academic circles made a thorough inquiry and discussion from the point of view of the revolutionaries’ instigation to the new army, and there were also some scholars trying to seek its root through studying the characteristic of the Hubei new army or the influence of Zhang Zhidong, who was the organizer and trainer of the army. This article made an analysis of the external conditions for the Hubei new army to rise in the 1911 revolution, and try to answer the question that “Apart from the revolutionaries’ permeation and instigation, what else external elements also made a contribution to the process of alienation of the Hubei new army?” In addition, it also made a comparison with the northern new army hoping for acquiring a more comprehensive understanding about the root of the 1911 revolution. ? 一 First we have to admit that the revolutionaries’ permeation and instigation was the prominent factor for the Hubei new army to rise firstly in the 1911 revolution. But we also have to see that although the high quality of the new army was, no doubt, a inherent root, the social and political circumstances at that time was also an essential external condition for the new army’s alienating into the gravedigger of the Qing dynasty. The fluctuation of the poli