Kang you wei biography definition

Entry updated 26 April 2021. Tagged: Author.

(1858-1927) Chinese author, poet and would-be reformer, influential on Utopian writings of the early twentieth century, although his own work on the subject was published only posthumously.

Well-read in international history, Kang published accounts of the political reforms of Russia's Peter the Great and Japan's Meiji Emperor, regarding them both as fine examples for China to imitate.

Guangxu emperor cause of death

As a young man, he directly petitioned the Guangxu Emperor (1871-1908), encouraging the Emperor's ill-fated attempt to shake up China's moribund system. In 1898, he was forced into fifteen years' exile over his support for these political reforms, which were shut down after a mere hundred days by the Empress Dowager, Cixi (1835-1908).

This led him on a prolonged tour of foreign countries, and he returned to China convinced that it was not yet ready for many of the changes he had proposed, particularly democracy.

Kang had previously called for a constituti