Kang you wei biography of rory
Young-tsu Wong throws new light on Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin, both through research on the sources, nature and import of their ideas and through....
The questions that will guide this course include: Why did scholars like Kang Youwei and Liang Qiyao advocate reform and constitutional monarchy, while others.
May 7, 2011 © Ulrich Theobald
Kang Youwei 康有爲 (1858-1927, also called Kang Zudai 康祖詒, courtesy name Guangxia 廣廈, style Changsu 長素, jinshi degree 1895) was a politician and philosopher of the late Qing period 清 (1644-1911).
He is famous for his initiating the Reform Movement of 1898 戊戌變法. As a politician he was a reformer of the absolutist monarchy of imperial China and tried to replace it by a constitutional monarchy.
Kang Youwei, hailing from Nanhai 南海, Guangdong, received a traditional Confucian training by Zhu Ciqi 朱次奇.
Impressed by the continuous defeats of the Qing government by the Western powers he approached the intention of the representatives of the Self-Strengthening Movement 自強運動 to reform China's economic structure in order to be able to withstand foreign influences.
As a Confucian philosopher he tried to interprete Confucius' teachings in a way that reform of a government was inevitable to adapt to the political circumstances of the time. In the early 1880s he