What kind of person is Kang Youwei?

Kang Youwei's life, at that time, was praised and criticized by later generations, and those who praised him called him a reformer. "Mr. Kang Youwei from Nanhai. Jinshi Zhang III wrote to the Qing Emperor seven times. In sexual persuasion, Changxing Ji and Wanmu Caotang established learning rules. "The Book of Human Justice" can't bear to be kind. " As an activist in the late Qing society, Kang Youwei advocated the Reform Movement and led the Reform Movement of 1898, which reflected the direction of historical progress.

Those who belittle him call him a royalist and criticize his conservative thoughts in refuting Kang Youwei's On Revolution. The more important reason is that he did not choose death like Tan Sitong, but chose to flee.

In the early years of the Republic of China, he contributed to the trend of respecting Confucius and restoring ancient ways. When he was the spiritual leader of the imperial restoration movement with Yuan Shikai, he stood on the opposite side of history and changed from a political giant to a realistic dwarf.

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Kang Youwei opposed absolute monarchy and advocated constitutional monarchy. He believes that the authority of the monarch is infinite "with geometric axioms" and advocates that "one government stands for politics and democracy does not stand."

He also said: "The relationship between monarch and minister is based on the law of man. Some people made laws, and then there were ministers. Today, this legislative power belongs to the public, and the so-called equal employment law is also the most beneficial to mankind. " Therefore, Kang Youwei clearly put forward the concept of identity equality as the theoretical basis of bourgeois democratic constitutionalism in China.

Before and after the Reform Movement of 1898, Kang Youwei's choice of constitutional mode changed. Before the Reform Movement of 1898, he advocated a centralized constitutional monarchy, similar to Japan and Germany. But after the Reform Movement of 1898, he advocated a virtual monarch, similar to Britain.

During the Reform Movement of 1898, he thought that the "reform" should be based on the heart of Russia Peter and the Meiji government of Japan. The former is intended to emphasize its top-down reform model, while the latter refers to the constitutional monarchy established after the Meiji Restoration in Japan.