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The region’s titular autonomy was upheld until 1910, when the monarchy itself was overthrown.
The Qing rulers were overthrown in 1911, and the Republic of China, led by Sun Yat-sen, was declared.
Such was the subsequent dismay among reactionary factions at this sign of weakness that the Tokugawa shogunate was soon overthrown.
The conservative Le Figaro of Paris said Schröder has overthrown "a historic monument," a man who, following Thomas Mann's formula, worked "so that Germany would become European in order to avoid Europe becoming German."
In the quiz, Bush had failed to name three of those leaders and had asserted that the leader of Pakistan, a general who had overthrown the country's elected government, recently "took over office … is going to bring stability to the country, and I think that's good news for the subcontinent."