城市起义,是指市民武装夺取城市政权,摆脱封建中央政府的统治。太平天国时期的上海小刀会起义在这方面颇具典型性:小刀会经长期酝酿、扩展势力后突然举义,使清朝官府“戎兴肘腋,猝不及备”,上海县城遂落入起义军手中。同期的闽南小刀会起义也可算是以厦门为中心的城市起义,与上海起义的性质基本一致。在中国历史上,反封建起义最初一般都是啸聚山林、占山为 Urban uprising refers to the citizens armed to seize the city power, get rid of the feudal central government’s rule. The Shanghai Puppet Uprising during the Taiping Rebellion was rather typical in this respect: the knife would be deliberately expanded after a long period of time to make a sudden definition of the forces so that the Qing government would “get rid of the armpits and get caught off guard,” and the county in Shanghai would fall into the hands of the rebel forces. In the same period, the uprising of Minnan’s Xiaogongju can also be regarded as an urban uprising centered on Xiamen, which is basically in line with the nature of the Shanghai uprising. In Chinese history, anti-feudal uprisings were generally mostly tsunashes and mountains, accounting for the mountain