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          Kang Youwei, or K'ang Yu-wei, (born March 19, , Guangdong province, China—died March 31, , Qingdao, Shandong), Chinese scholar, a key figure in the..

          May 7, 2011 © Ulrich Theobald

          Kang Youwei 康有爲 (1858-1927, also called Kang Zudai 康祖詒, courtesy name Guangxia 廣廈, style Changsu 長素, jinshi degree 1895) was a politician and philosopher of the late Qing period 清 (1644-1911).

          He is famous for his initiating the Reform Movement of 1898 戊戌變法.

          Kang Youwei (–) has had a profound influence on modern-day China.

        1. Kang Youwei travelled for the first time of his life in , not too far away, since he went to Hong Kong, then in to Shanghai.
        2. Kang Youwei, or K'ang Yu-wei, (born March 19, , Guangdong province, China—died March 31, , Qingdao, Shandong), Chinese scholar, a key figure in the.
        3. Kang Youwei argued that Unity is the basic law of history.
        4. History, Political Science ·

          5. As a politician he was a reformer of the absolutist monarchy of imperial China and tried to replace it by a constitutional monarchy.

          Kang Youwei, hailing from Nanhai 南海, Guangdong, received a traditional Confucian training by Zhu Ciqi 朱次奇.

          Impressed by the continuous defeats of the Qing government by the Western powers he approached the intention of the representatives of the Self-Strengthening Movement 自強運動 to reform China's economic structure in order to be able to withstand foreign influences.

          As a Confucian philosopher he tried to interprete Confucius' teachings in a way that reform of a government was inevitable to adapt to the political circumstances of the time. In the early 1880s he