Kang Youwei
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Kang Youwei (Chinese: 康有為; Cantonese: Hōng Yáuh-wàih; 19March 1858 – 31March 1927) was a Chinese philosopher and politician. He was also a noted calligrapher and prominent political thinker and reformer of the late Qing dynasty. Through his connections, he became close to the young Guangxu Emperor and fervently encouraged him to promote his friends and consequently soured the relationship between the emperor and his adoptive mother, the powerful Empress Dowager Cixi. His ideas inspired a reformation movement, the Hundred Days' Reform. Although he continued to advocate a constitutional monarchy after the founding of the Republic, Kang's political theory was never put into practice as he was forced to flee China for repeated attempts to assassinate the Empress Dowager Cixi. He was an ardent Chinese nationalist and internationalist.
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19 March 1858 Nanhai District, Guangdong, Qing Empire
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31 March 1927 (aged 69) Qingdao, Shandong, Republic of China
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