A Sudden Look Back[2] or Suddenly Turn Around[3] (simplified Chinese: 猛回头; traditional Chinese: 猛回頭), also translated as Sudden Awakening,[4] Sudden Enlightenment,[5] is a propaganda pamphlet[6] written by Chen Tianhua.[7] It was originally published in Tokyo in 1903[8] as an anti-Manchu pamphlet.[9]

A Sudden Look Back
AuthorChen Tianhua
PublisherJapan Tokyo Press
Publication date
1903[1]

A Sudden Look Back accuses the Western powers of invading China, states to the Chinese people the crisis facing China, points out that the Qing government has become the "royal court of the foreigners".[10] It further criticizes the rescue of the emperor to establish a constitution, propagates the anti-imperialist and anti-Manchu revolution, and establishes a democratic republican system.[11]

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  2. ^ Kenneth James Hammond; Kristin Stapleton (2008). The Human Tradition in Modern China. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 87–. ISBN 978-0-7425-5466-5.
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  4. ^ Ching-hwang Yen (18 August 2016). Ethnicities, Personalities And Politics In The Ethnic Chinese Worlds. World Scientific. pp. 578–. ISBN 978-981-4603-03-4.
  5. ^ Pingyuan Chen (28 January 2021). A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920). Springer Nature. pp. 246–. ISBN 978-981-334-889-9.
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  9. ^ Yu Zhang (13 December 2017). Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China: Bonds and Boundaries. Lexington Books. pp. 151–. ISBN 978-1-4985-5786-3.
  10. ^ Chinese Cultural Dictionary. Wuhan University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-7-307-02862-3.
  11. ^ Dictionary of Chinese History: Qing History Volume (II). Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House.