biography
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Liang Qichao
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also spelled Liang Ch'i-ch'ao
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pronunciation:
[leeang cheechow]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1873–1929)
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| biography:
| Chinese reformer. He travelled in the West, was prominent in China's late 19th-c reform movement, and fled to Japan in 1898. He published the journal Renovated Citizen, seeking to reappraise Confucianism in the light of Western liberal democracy. Though an influential intellectual, his gradualism was overtaken by events. He opposed Sun Yixian's Socialism, and founded (1913) the anti-Guomindang Democratic Party. He abandoned political activity when his Western illusions were destroyed by World War 1. |
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