Kang Youwei in Canada

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Kang Youwei, (康有爲, 1858-1927, original name Kang Zuyi 康祖詒, courtesy name (zi) Guangxia 廣廈, literary name (hao) Changsu 長素), Chinese scholar, a leader of the Reform Movement of 1898 and a key figure in the intellectual development of modern China. He is famous for his initiating the Reform Movement of 1898 (戊戌變法). The empress Cixi annulled the reform and had six reform leaders executed, and Kang had to flee the country. He settled down in Canada where he founded, together with Lee Folk Gay (Li Fuji; 李福基), the Baohuanghui (保皇會; Chinese Empire Reform Association). As a politician he was a reformer of the absolutist monarchy of imperial China and tried to replace it by a constitutional monarchy.

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  • Kang Youwei in Canada
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  • 1 black and white photograph
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  • 康有为像
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  • 48.4359, -123.35155
  • 48.4294, -123.3679
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  • Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians
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  • File: 1.36
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  • 2012
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