id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3194 Sun Yat-sen - Wikipedia .html text/html 14143 1861 76 One group of intellectuals contended that the Manchu Qing government could restore its legitimacy by successfully modernizing.[43] Stressing that overthrowing the Manchu would result in chaos and would lead to China being carved up by imperialists, intellectuals like Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao supported responding with initiatives like the Hundred Days' Reform.[43] In another faction, Sun Yat-sen and others like Zou Rong wanted a revolution to replace the dynastic system with a modern nation-state in the form of a republic.[43] The Hundred Days' reform turned out to be a failure by 1898.[44] Sun Yat-sen sent telegrams to the leaders of all provinces requesting them to elect and to establish the National Assembly of the Republic of China in 1912.[80] In May 1912 the legislative assembly moved from Nanjing to Beijing with its 120 members divided between members of Tongmenghui and a Republican party that supported Yuan Shikai.[81] Many revolutionary members were already alarmed by Yuan's ambitions and the northern based Beiyang government. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3194.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3194.txt