Economic and political exploitation of China by various Western powers and Japan and humiliating military defeats inflicted by Great Britain in the Opium Wars (1839-1842, 1856-1860) and by Japan in the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) were the main causes of Chinese resentment. ... Wuchang rebels seized control of the government on what would be later known as "Double Ten Day", and changed the name to the Republic of China. ...

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