Kang Youwei
Chinese Name
Pinyin	Kāng Yǒuwéi
Wade-Giles	K'ang Yu-wei
Traditional Chinese	康有為
Simplified Chinese	康有为
Family name	Kang
Courtesy name (zi)	Guǎngsh๠(廣廈)
Courtesy names (hao) Chángsù (長素) Míngyí (明夷) Gēngshēng (更生) or 更甡 Xīqiáo Shānrén (西樵山人) Yóucúnsǒu (游存叟) Tiānyóu Huàrén (天游化人)
Notes:	¹K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium gives Guǎngxià 廣夏

Kang Youwei (Chinese: 康有為; March 19, 1858–March 31, 1927) was a Chinese scholar and political reformist. He called for an end to property and the family in the interest of Chinese nationalism. Due to his desire to end the traditional Chinese family structure, he is regarded as an advocate for women's rights in China. ^[1] This image is from Kang Yu-wei: A Biography and a symposium, by Jung-pang Lo, Library of Congress number 66-20911. ... Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉语拼音; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Hanyu Pinyin: , lit. ... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... A Chinese surname, also called a clan name or family name (姓, pinyin: x ng; or 氏, shi), is one of the over seven hundred family names used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups. ... Cha can also refer to a Latin American dance, also called the Cha-cha-cha. ... Cha can also refer to a Latin American dance, also called the Cha-cha-cha. ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... // Use of the term The concept of property or ownership has no single or universally accepted definition. ... A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships — including domestic partnership, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the Roman Empire). ...

He was a mentor of Liang Qichao, and the two of them participated in the Hundred Days' Reform. Both fled abroad when the program was unsuccessful. Portrait of Liang Qichao (Tung Wah News, 17 April 1901) Liang Qichao (Chinese: 梁啟超, Liáng Qǐchāo; Courtesy: Zhuoru, 卓如; Pseudonym: Rengong, 任公) (February 23, 1873–January 19, 1929) was a Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher and reformist during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) who inspired Chinese scholars with his writings and... The Hundred Days Reform (Chinese: 戊戌变法, wùxū biànfǎ, or 百日維新, bǎirì wéixīn) was a 103-day reform from 11 June to 21 September 1898. ...

Chinese government officials ordered him executed by the method of ling chi or "death by a thousand cuts", and he fled to Japan. After China became a republic in 1912 he remained an advocate of constitutional monarchy, and for this aim he launched a failed coup d'état in 1917. General Zhang Xun and his queue wearing soldiers occupied Beijing and declared the restoration of Puyi and the Qing dynasty on July 1. The affair was a huge miscalculation as the nation was very anti-monarchist. On July 12, Duan Qirui easily took the city. Kang became regarded as an anachronism. Death by a thousand cuts is a somewhat exaggerated Western name for an actual form of mutilation used in China before the modern era, known as sloping or deterioration (Chinese: 凌遲/陵迟; pinyin: língchí, also spelled ling che), evidently signifying slow death. Also known as slicing in some accounts, it became... In a broad definition a republic is a state or country that is led by people who do not base their political power on any principle beyond the control of the people of that state or country. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Constitutional monarchies with representative parliamentary systems are shown in red A constitutional monarchy is a form of monarchical government established under a constitutional system which acknowledges an elected or hereditary monarch as head of state. ... A coup détat (pronounced ), or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government against the volonté générale formed by the majority of the citizenry, usually done by a smaller supposedly weaker body that just replaces the top power figures. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Beijing (Chinese: 北京, , IPA:), a city in northern China (formerly spelled in English as Peking or Peiking), is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Puyi (Chinese:溥儀;) (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ruling family was the Xuantong Emperor (宣統皇帝) of China between 1908 and 1924 (ruling emperor between 1908 and 1912, and non-ruling emperor between 1912 and 1924), the tenth and last emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to... The Qing Dynasty (Manchu: daicing gurun; Chinese: 清朝; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: ching chao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was a dynasty founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China, expanded into China proper and the surrounding territories of Inner Asia, establishing the... Duan Qirui. ...

Kang died of natural illness in the city of Qingdao, Shandong in 1927. He was 69. Qingdao (help· info) (Simplified Chinese: 青岛; Traditional Chinese: 青島; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ching-tao), well-known to the West by its Postal System Pinyin transliteration Tsingtao, is a sub-provincial city in eastern Shandong province, Peoples Republic of China. ... Shandong (Simplified Chinese: 山东; Traditional Chinese: 山東; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shan-tung) is a coastal province of eastern Peoples Republic of China. ...

Kang's daughter, Kang Tongbi (康同壁) was a student at Barnard College. Barnard College, founded in 1889, is an independent college of liberal arts and sciences for women, located in the borough of Manhattan, in New York, New York, United States. ...

Reference

1. Jung-pang Lo. K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium. Library of Congress number 66-20911.

See M. E. Cameron, The Reform Movement in China, 1898–1912 (1931, repr. 1963); biography ed. and tr. by Lo Jung-pang (1967). The Great Hall interior. ...

Kang youwei Grandson : Kang Ta siang (Live in Indonesia)

External links

• Infoplease.com Profile
• K'ang Yu-wei on Encyclopedia.com