1, Tan Sitong (one of the six gentlemen in the Reform Movement of 1898)?
Tan Sitong (1865.3.10-1898.9.28), male, from Liuyang, Hunan, was a famous politician, thinker and reformer in modern China. His "Benevolence" is the first philosophical work of the Reformists, and it is also an important work in the history of China's modern thought.
In his early years, Tan Sitong advocated the establishment of the Institute of Current Affairs and the Institute of Southern Studies in his hometown of Hunan, and hosted Hunan Daily. He also advocated mining, building railways, promoting political reform and carrying out the New Deal.
1898 (in the 24th year of Guangxu), Tan Sitong took part in leading the Reform Movement of 1898, and was killed after failing. He is only 33 years old and is one of the "six gentlemen of the 1898 Movement".
2. Kang Youwei
Kang Youwei (1858- 1927), formerly known as Zuyi, Guangsha and Changshu, is also known as Ming Yi, Ji Geng, Xiqiao Mountain, Youcuncuo and Hua Tianyou. He was born in Danzaosu Village, Nanhai County, Guangdong Province, and was called China Kang Nanhai in the late Qing Dynasty. Kang Youwei was born in a feudal bureaucratic family, and began to contact western culture in the fifth year of Guangxu (1879). In the 14th year of Guangxu (1888), Kang Youwei once again went to Beijing to take the rural examination in Shuntian, and took the opportunity to write to Emperor Guangxu for the first time to ask for political reform, but he was blocked. In the seventeenth year of Guangxu (189 1), a 10,000-acre thatched cottage was established in Guangzhou and taught students here. In the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), I learned that treaty of shimonoseki was signed, and invited more than 300 people to write about thousands of books, that is, "write on the bus".
In the 24th year of Guangxu (1898), the Reform Movement of 1898 began. After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, he fled to Japan, claiming that he held the imperial edict, organized a royalist society, advocated enlightened autocracy and opposed the revolution. After the Revolution of 1911, as the leader of the royalist party, he opposed the harmonious system of * * * and has been planning to restore Puyi. In the sixth year of the Republic of China (19 17), Kang Youwei and Zhang Xun launched the restoration and made Puyi emperor. Soon, they failed under the crusade of the then Prime Minister Duan of Beiyang Government. Kang Youwei always declared his loyalty to the Qing Dynasty in his later years. After being expelled from the Forbidden City by Feng Yuxiang, Puyi personally went to Tianjin to visit the Jingyuan where Puyi lived. He died in Qingdao in 16 (1927). As an activist in the late Qing Dynasty, Kang Youwei advocated the reform movement, which reflected the direction of historical progress. But later, he and Yuan Shikai became the spiritual leaders of the Restoration Movement.