{{Short description|1903 work by Chen Tianhua}} {{Infobox book | name = A Sudden Look Back | image = | image_size = | border = | alt = | caption = | author = Chen Tianhua | audio_read_by = | title_orig = | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = | series = | release_number = | subject = | genre = | set_in = | publisher = Japan Tokyo Press | publisher2 = | pub_date = 1903<ref name="Schiffrin1970">{{cite book|author=Harold Schiffrin|title=Sun Yat-Sen and the Origins of the Chinese Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fbUwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA279|year=1970|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-01752-8|pages=279–}}</ref> | published = | media_type = | pages = | awards = | isbn = | isbn_note = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | notes = | exclude_cover = | website = }}
'''''A Sudden Look Back'''''<ref name="HammondStapleton2008">{{cite book|author1=Kenneth James Hammond|author2=Kristin Stapleton|title=The Human Tradition in Modern China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_nBKizpn18C&pg=PA87|year=2008|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-5466-5|pages=87–}}</ref> or ''Suddenly Turn Around''<ref name="Zhang2015">{{cite book|author=Qizhi Zhang|title=An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1QhJCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA425|date=15 April 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-662-46482-3|pages=425–}}</ref> ({{lang-zh|s=猛回头|t=猛回頭}}), also translated as ''Sudden Awakening'',<ref name="Yen2016">{{cite book|author=Ching-hwang Yen|title=Ethnicities, Personalities And Politics In The Ethnic Chinese Worlds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4_4DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA578|date=18 August 2016|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-4603-03-4|pages=578–}}</ref> ''Sudden Enlightenment'',<ref name="Chen2021">{{cite book|author=Pingyuan Chen|title=A Historical Study of Early Modern Chinese Fictions (1890—1920)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qd0XEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA246|date=28 January 2021|publisher=Springer Nature|isbn=978-981-334-889-9|pages=246–}}</ref> is a propaganda pamphlet<ref name="Kaske2008">{{cite book|author=Elisabeth Kaske|title=The Politics of Language in Chinese Education: 1895 - 1919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&pg=PA166|year=2008|publisher=Brill Publishers|isbn=978-90-04-16367-6|pages=166–}}</ref> written by Chen Tianhua.<ref name="IsinNyers2014">{{cite book|author1=Engin F. Isin|author2=Peter Nyers|title=Routledge Handbook of Global Citizenship Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EtHpAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA368|date=27 June 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-23796-6|pages=368–}}</ref> It was originally published in Tokyo in 1903<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward J. M. Rhoads|title=Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China, 1861-1928|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXQkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|date=1 May 2017|publisher=University of Washington Press|isbn=978-0-295-99748-3|pages=13–}}</ref> as an anti-Manchu pamphlet.<ref name="Zhang2017">{{cite book|author=Yu Zhang|title=Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China: Bonds and Boundaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5iBBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA151|date=13 December 2017|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-1-4985-5786-3|pages=151–}}</ref>
''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".<ref>{{cite book|title=Chinese Cultural Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlB0AAAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Wuhan University Press|isbn=978-7-307-02862-3}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Chinese History: Qing History Volume (II)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vY5CAAAAYAAJ|publisher=Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House}}</ref>
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