The influence of the Revolution of 1911 on China society is limited. Although the Revolution of 1911 is often called "bourgeois revolution in China", China actually lacked a strong bourgeoisie at that time, and the revolutionaries were not mainly bourgeois, and the success of the revolution did not directly contribute to the further development of the bourgeoisie. The Revolution of 1911 did not reconstruct the social structure like the Western bourgeois revolution. The Revolution of 1911 only overthrew the Manchu dignitaries at the top of the society, but the provincial gentry and the old Han bureaucrats, who were dominant in the traditional local society of China, were not fundamentally impacted. Because more soldiers, old bureaucrats and local gentry dominated the Revolution of 1911. These people remained in power after the Revolution of 1911, further consolidating their original position. Although some of the main leaders of the revolutionary party, such as Sun Yat-sen, were from civilian backgrounds, the living conditions of the poor civilians in China have not fundamentally changed since the Revolution of 1911.
After the Revolution of 1911, the warlord regime, a large number of wars and military politics made the gentry bureaucratic forces with traditional knowledge and fame gradually decline, and were replaced by figures with military backgrounds and local bandits and bullies.
The Revolution of 1911 didn't fundamentally touch on such issues as the population increase after18th century, land annexation in the late Qing Dynasty, and the oppression and economic aggression of western powers on China.