biography
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Kang Youwei
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also spelled K'ang Yu-wei
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pronunciation:
[kang yooway]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1858–1927)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and historian, the leader of the Hundred Days of Reform in China (1898). Impressed by British administration, he saw equality as a product of Confucianism. In 1898 he organized thousands of young scholars to demand drastic national reforms. The young Emperor Zaitian summoned him to implement reforms as the first step to creating a constitutional monarchy, but the movement was ended when Dowager Empress Ci-Xi seized the emperor, executed six of the young reformers, and punished all who had supported them. Kang escaped to Japan with foreign help, returning to China in 1914. |
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