ABSTRACT
The destinies of China and Portugal proved bound together once again, with both nations undergoing their respective republican revolutions just 1 year apart. The new constitutions promised much in the way of regional autonomy and individual liberties but could not prevent the geopolitical events of the era from suspending the republican projects. Portugal saw the fall of 45 governments between the 1910 and 1926, while China descended into civil war. The Portuguese Republican Party was established in 1876 with the objective of overthrowing the monarchy. Chinese reformers had long been active at Macau, but after Cixi's coup, the cause became more radical. The father of the Chinese Republic, Sun Yat-sen, plotted his moves from the city. The Republican Revolution attempted to replace over two-millennia of imperial rule in China with a modern constitutional model. The 1917 regime featured a degree of decentralization. The 1920 regime tightened executive control once again.
