The Moving Away from the Imperial Regime, or Departing the Imperial Regime, is a collection of historical essays written by Chinese historian Qin Hui, majorly dealing with the topics of modern Chinese history before and after the Xinhai Revolution, and questioning the long-dominant Marxist historiography and the historical view of strengthening the nation in Chinese historiography. The book describes China's tortuous history of constitutional transformation. With the central theme of the difficulty of China's departing the imperial regime, Moving Away from the Imperial Regime points out that China's second transition (from imperialism to a republican, democratic, and constitutional system since the late Qing Dynasty) is still incomplete after more than one hundred years, and it is difficult to predict when it will succeed. This view in the book provoked the discontent among Chinese book censors and was banned. Source: Wikipedia (en)