Yahoo News UK: Kang Youwei: the revolutionary thinker behind modern China’s transformation
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Kang Youwei
Kang Youwei was a Chinese political thinker and reformer in 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. His ideas were influential in the abortive Hundred Days' Reform. Following the coup by Cixi that ended the reform, Kang was forced to flee. He contin…
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culture · Chinese political thinker and reformer (1858–1927) · writer · journalist · philosopher · politician · pedagogue · also Kang Youwei, chang su, Youwei Kang, bu ren, nan hai lao ren, tian feng hai tao lou
Born 19 March 1858 · Died 31 March 1927 · Q360135
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2022· 1 entry
China Internet Information Center: Kang Youwei’ s“Sweat Soaked Boat”
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2018· 2 entries
中国日报网: Kang Youwei's path toward peace and tranquility ended in Qingdao
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Europa Press: International Symposium on Kang Youwei’s Calligraphic Study was held in Qingdao, China
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1967· 1 entry
(The Association for Asian Studies: Monographs and Papers, Bd
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1927· 1 entry
Died 1927-03-31.
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1904· 1 entry
And was deeply attracted to the landscape
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1895· 1 entry
China was defeated by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War
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1891· 1 entry
And began drafting Kongzi Gaizhi Kao (Study of Confucius as a Reformer)
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1888· 1 entry
Alarmed by the foreign encroachment on China's southwestern frontier that followed the Sino-French War, Kang used a trip to the capital for the Shuntian provincial examination to submit his First Memorial to Emperor Guan
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1886· 1 entry
Which advocated for a practical educational system designed to serve statecraft rather than abstract academic debates
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1885· 1 entry
Started writing Renlei Gongli, a work that utilized geometric methods to argue for universal human equality
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1884· 1 entry
Kang returned to his hometown in Su Village to escape the unrest
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1883· 1 entry
Kang founded the Anti-Footbinding Society near Canton
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1882· 1 entry
Kang went to Beijing to take the imperial examination
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1879· 1 entry
Met Zhang Dinghua, a scholar-official from Beijing whose deep knowledge of contemporary affairs and "new books" exposed Kang to early reformist trends
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-03-19.
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