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Kang Youwei (Chinese: 康有為; Cantonese: Hōng Yáuh-wàih; 19 March 1858 – 31 March 1927) was a political thinker and reformer in China of the late Qing dynasty. His increasing closeness to and influence over the young Guangxu Emperor sparked conflict between the emperor and his adoptive mother, the regent Empress Dowager Cixi .
Elements of the Qing government were sufficiently alarmed to permit Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao to propose reforms to Emperor Guangxu; Guangxu agreed. [7] Some of Kang's students were also given minor but strategic posts in the capital to assist with the reforms. The goals of these reforms included: Abolishing the traditional examination ...
A Study of Confucius as a Reformer of Institutions [2] or On Confucius as a Reformer [3] (Chinese: 孔子改制考), also translated as A Study of Kongzi as a Reformer, [4] A Study of Confucius as Reformist, [5] is a book written by Kang Youwei that preaches the idea of "changing the institutions based on the teachings of the old times" (托古改制). [6]
Kang Youwei managed to escape to Japan, and he also spread stories to vilify Cixi. Jung Chang wrote that Kang Youwei was a "master propagandist". [8] The six were beheaded in the following order: Kang Guangren (康广仁), Tan Sitong, Lin Xu, Yang Shenxiu (杨深秀), Yang Rui (杨锐), and Liu Guangdi. [9]
A Study of the Forged Classics of the Xin Period [1] [a] (simplified Chinese: 新学伪经考; traditional Chinese: 新學偽經考; pinyin: Xinxue weijing kao) is a book written by Kang Youwei that critiques the Confucian Old Text School based on the authenticity of the Classics.
The Chinese Empire Reform Association (Chinese: 保救大清皇帝會; lit. 'Society to Protect the Emperor of the Great Qing'), or Baohuang Hui ( Chinese : 保皇會 ) in short, was an organization formed in Victoria, British Columbia and active mostly outside of China that intended to support Guangxu’s return to power in the Chinese Empire ...
In early June 1898 the grand councilor Weng Tonghe introduced the Guangxu Emperor to the reformist official Kang Youwei, and the emperor was impressed by him, especially after reading Kang's two books about the reforms in Russia by Peter the Great and in Japan by the Meiji Emperor.
Leaders of the movement such as Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, Tan Sitong and Yan Fu started publishing newspapers in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities, thus raising the attention of the emperor, who later invited them to enter the government to implement reforms. Although both the movement and later the reforms in 1898 failed, many scholars in ...