Liang Qichao

Liang Qichao

▪ Chinese scholar
Wade-Giles romanization  Liang Ch'i-ch'ao 
born Feb. 23, 1873, Xinhui, Guangdong province, China
died Jan. 19, 1929, Beijing

      the foremost intellectual leader of China in the first two decades of the 20th century.

      Liang was a disciple of the great scholar Kang Youwei, who reinterpreted the Confucian Classics in an attempt to utilize tradition as a justification for the sweeping innovations he prescribed for Chinese culture. After China's humiliating defeat by Japan (1894–95), the writings of Kang and Liang came to the attention of the emperor and helped usher in the Hundred Days of Reform. During this period (summer 1898) the emperor acted on the advice of these scholars in an attempt to renovate the imperial system. The suggested changes included setting up modern schools, remaking the 2,000-year-old civil service examination system, and reorganizing virtually every activity of the government. When the empress dowager Cixi halted the reform movement because she felt it too inclusive, warrants were issued for the arrest of Kang, Liang, and other reformers. Liang fled to Japan. During his exile his iconoclastic journalism affected a whole generation of young Chinese.

      Liang returned to China in 1912 after the establishment of the Republic of China. As a founder of the Progressive Party (Jinbudang), he sided with Yuan Shikai, the autocratic president of the republic, against the liberal nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen (Sun Zhongshan) and his Nationalist Party (Kuomintang). Liang, however, organized a successful resistance to Yuan's attempt to overturn the republic and have himself declared emperor. After 1920 Liang served as professor in Tsinghua (Qinghua) University and later held the position as head of the Beijing Library. English translations of Liang's works include History of Chinese Political Thought During the Early Tsin Period (1930) and Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period (1959).

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