The study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution is a highland and prominent study in the field of modern Chinese historiography, and many scholars have diligently pursued it, and Professor Su Quanyou is also one of themProfessor Su Quanyou's relationship with the history of the Xinhai Revolution can be traced back to his time as a university student. Professor Su Quanyou, who has always had a strong interest in history, naturally chose to study in the Department of History at university. At the beginning of his academic career, he set his academic research direction at the end of the Qing Dynasty, which naturally included the relevant content of the history of the Xinhai Revolution.
Since the end of the 80s of the last century, Professor Su Quanyou has been deeply engaged in the field of Xinhai revolutionary history for more than 30 years. In the past 30 years, Professor Su Quanyou's research on the history of the Xinhai Revolution has changed many times, gradually deepened, and can be divided into three stages if subdivided.
The first stage is the first decade of the 20th century.
In 1987, after graduating from his bachelor's degree, Professor Su Quanyou entered Henan Normal University and officially started his academic career. History is centered on the activities of "people". Therefore, in the process of historical development, "man" is the most active and crucial factor. To a certain extent, if we understand the "people" in history, we can also understand the course of history. Therefore, during this period, Professor Su Quanyou focused on the research of the characters during the Xinhai Revolution and published a series of **. Representative achievements include: "The Relationship between Huang and Li in the Yangxia Campaign" (1993), "A New Exploration of Huang Xing and the Battle of Hankou" (1995), "Qin Lishan's Ideological Transformation from Reform to Revolution and Its Characteristics" (1996), "On the Influence of Huang Xing on the Wuchang Uprising" (1997), "On Yuan Shikai's Idea of Opening to the Outside World" (1998), "Huang Xing's Abandonment of Wuchang" (2000), etc. Through the activities of specific figures during the Xinhai Revolution, the above achievements went deep into the historical scene, and then the historical details and truths that were obscured. In particular, the research centered on Huang Xing not only has important academic value, but also has strong readability. Therefore, Professor Su Quanyou's related research has had an important impact on the academic community.
The second stage is the first decade of this century. During this period, Professor Su Quanyou's research focused on the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in the late Qing Dynasty. In this way, Professor Su Quanyou shifted from studying the specific "people" and "events" in the history of the Xinhai Revolution to the investigation of institutional history. Based on his Ph.D., Professor Su Quanyou has published "The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Modernization of the Postal Service in the Late Qing Dynasty" (2005), "On the Relationship between the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and Local Governors" (2006), "The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Modernization of the Shipping Industry in the Late Qing Dynasty" (2006), "On the Commercial and Telecommunications Official Office in the Late Qing Dynasty" (2007), "A Review of the Profit and Power Movement under the auspices of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications" (2008), "On the Management of International Students in the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Late Qing Dynasty: A Comparison with Yuan Shikai's Policy on International Students" (2009) et al. In parallel with his institutional research, Professor Su Quanyou has also expanded the scope of his character studies. He has published "Analysis of Sun Yat-sen and the Guangdong-Anhui Triangle Alliance" (2004), "Sun Yat-sen and the Problem of the Establishment of the Capital" (2004), and "Did the Xinhai Revolution Promote the Concept of Democracy to Penetrate the Hearts of the People?".(2006), "Yuan Shikai's Role in the Yangxia Campaign and Its Influence on the Xinhai Revolution" (2008), "Liang Shiyi and the Railway Power in the Late Qing Dynasty" (2009), "A Review of Song Jiaoren's View of Balance of Power and Foreign Debt" (2010) and other articles.
Professor Su Quanyou shifted the perspective of the study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution from the "Xinhai Revolution" itself to its opposite, the "Qing Dynasty", and from the perspective of institutional history, the internal problems of the Qing Dynasty are an expansion of the existing scope of the study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution. Professor Su Quanyou did not give up his in-depth research on relevant figures when focusing on the system, and his published related works illustrate this point well. Institutions are not only the basis for the activities of all historical figures, but also for the development of society. Professor Su Quanyou's research on the combination of institutions and people not only inherits the results of the previous research stage, but also lays a solid foundation for opening a new stage. Obviously, Professor Su Quanyou's academic research has a "starting point" and a "transformation" basis. This is the reason why Professor Su Quanyou's research on the history of the Xinhai Revolution has been deeply rooted and has achieved remarkable results.
The third stage is after 2010. During this period, Professor Su Quanyou further deepened the research theme of the history of the Xinhai Revolution. From the characters of the Xinhai Revolution and the Qing system, to the "Qing Dynasty" as the first perspective, the internal reasons for its decline. In the book "Social Crisis and Response in the Late Qing Dynasty" (2013), Professor Su Quanyou discussed the problem of social crisis and response in the late Qing Dynasty from six aspects. In the book "Research on the Internal Causes of the Fall of the Qing Dynasty" (2016), Professor Su Quanyou believes that the Qing ** is "suicide rather than homicide". Professor Su Quanyou's internal reasons for the "collapse of the ruling group", "ineffective response to the crisis", "popular mobilization" and "popular organization" all contributed to the eventual demise of the Qing Dynasty. Then, Professor Su Quanyou changed his perspective in the book "Social Research on the Late Qing Dynasty from the Perspective of Cybernetics" (2016) and interpreted the reasons for the demise of the Qing Dynasty from the perspective of "cybernetics".
In the course of Professor Su Quanyou's research on the history of the Xinhai Revolution, the above-mentioned achievements are only representative works, but they also show the breadth and depth of his cultivation in this field. After such outstanding achievements in the study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution, Professor Su Quanyou did not stop there. After 2020, Professor Su Quanyou once again changed his thinking and returned the macro narrative perspective to the micro local investigation. Professor Su Quanyou focused his research on the history of the Xinhai Revolution on Henan, hoping to examine the twists and turns and diversity of the development of the Xinhai Revolution from the perspective of local history. Professor Su Quanyou's research on the history of the Xinhai Revolution in Henan has positive significance for both the local history of Henan and the history of the Xinhai Revolution.
More importantly, Professor Su Quanyou established the Henan Xinhai Revolutionary History Research Center in Henan Province. Professor Su Quanyou is not only the director of the center, but also the chief expert. As a result, he advanced the study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution in Henan Province to a new stage. Under the new historical conditions and on the new research platform, Professor Su Quanyou will certainly be able to continue to lead the scholars of the center to shed ink and add new colors to the study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution.
Professor Su Quanyou not only deeply engaged in the research of the history of the Xinhai Revolution, but also led a group of young scholars to join it. In particular, in the School of History and Culture of Henan Normal University, a group of scholars with the study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution has been formed, and a series of research results have been produced, such as Wang Shouqian's "The Bloody Central Plains: The Xinhai Revolution in Henan" (2011), "On the Role of Nanyang Industry Persuasion in the Social Development of the Late Qing Dynasty" (2008), "The Candidate Civil Officials of the Qing Dynasty and Their Occupational Differentiation in the Late Qing Dynasty" (2011), Ren Tongqin's "On the Preferential Care System of the Late Qing Army" (2003), Perseverance in the Midst of Turmoil: The Construction and Interpretation of Wu Peifu's Personality from the Perspective of Confucianism (2011), Li Lixia's Fiscal Crisis and Response in the Late Qing Dynasty: An Investigation Centered on the Reform of Salt Administration (2016), and The Transformation of the Relationship between Salt and Power in the Late Qing Dynasty (2016), etc. In addition to the continuous production of research results related to the history of the Xinhai Revolution, and at the same time, some new academic fields have been expanded around this research, and the results are also blooming. For example, Professor Ren Tongqin's research on "direct tax evasion in the first period" and "research on national tax administration and national fiscal governance in Nanjing" and so on. Associate Professor Ou Lei's "The Transformation of the Grassroots Society and the Upper Class of Power Structure in the Qing Dynasty - From the Perspective of the Activities of the Rural Gentry in the Middle and Late Qing Dynasty" (2013), "The Concept of Monarchy Governance in the Early Qing Dynasty - From the Perspective of the Confucian Minister Zhang Ying in the Early Qing Dynasty" (2014), Associate Professor Yang Xiangyu's Research on Chen Qingnian and the Systematic Study of Philology, Associate Professor Feng Chengjie's Research on "Research on the Daily Life of Tianjin People during the Occupation Period", etc. These extended studies are essentially on a longer time horizon to the significance and value of the Xinhai Revolution.
Professor Su Quanyou also attaches great importance to the introduction of talents and the construction of talent echelon. When he presided over the affairs of the School of History and Culture of Henan Normal University, Professor Su Quanyou encouraged the new doctors of the Academy to actively cultivate academic interests, have the courage to carry out academic exploration, and boldly solve academic problems. The whole hospital twisted into a rope and adopted the "wolf pack tactics, all the people are soldiers!"."The ultimate goal is to form a new synergy and create new results and value. The introduction of new talents and the construction of echelons will undoubtedly inject an inexhaustible source of vitality and impetus into the subsequent research on the history of the Xinhai Revolution and the local history of Henan.
Throughout Professor Su Quanyou's more than 30 years of academic research on the history of the Xinhai Revolution, it is not difficult to find that he has always maintained the purest love for academics and adhered to the scholarly spirit of seeking truth and truth. While pursuing the realization of self-academic value, we actively give back to the society, create a platform, reward the backward, and cultivate strength for the study of the history of the Xinhai Revolution in the new era.
Today, Professor Su Quanyou is still working hard to pursue the way of learning, inheriting the sages, setting an example, and tirelessly. Professor Su Quanyou's research on the history of the Xinhai Revolution is not another spiritual inheritance and development of Mr. Sun Yat-sen's "comrades still need to work hard".
Contributed by Li Shuai.