Tang Hualong's portrait
PublicTang Hualong (汤化龙; 湯化龍; 1874-1918), a constitutional reformer of late Qing China before 1911, education minister (1914-15) and interior minister (1917) of China. A successful candidate in the imperial examination, he joined the constitution movement in 1908 after studying abroad in Japan and was subsequently named president of the Union of Provincial Councils. November 1911 saw the founding of the Hubei Military Government, of which he was named chief advisor. He was elected speaker of the House of Representatives during Yuan Shikai's reign as a member of the (pro-Yuan) Progressive Party of China, and was named interior minister after Duan Qirui took power. The public was upset about the government's continuing acquisition of external debts to prosecute the civil war. Tang, who was returning from an official visit to the United States intended to secure war loans, was assassinated in Canada by a Kuomintang member named Wang Chang (1886-1918), who killed himself thereafter. The image is printed in this book: Qishui Tang Xiansheng yinian lu (A memory of Tang Huilong). N.p., 1918.
- Tang Hualong
- 1 black and white photograph
- 湯化龍像
- Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians
- Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html
- 2012
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