Chinese political thinker and reformer (1858–1927)
Kang Youwei
Born
(1858-03-19)19 March 1858
Nanhai, Guangdong, Qing Empire
Died
31 March 1927(1927-03-31) (aged 69)
Qingdao, Shandong, Republic of China
Education
Jinshi degree in the Imperial Examination
Known for
Leader in the Gongche Shangshu movement Leader in the Hundred Days' Reform
Notable work
Reformation of Meiji Emperor (日本明治變政考), and Reformation of Peter the Great (俄大彼得變政記)
Spouses
Zhang Yunzhu
Liang Xujiao
He Zhanli
Liao Dingzhen
Zhang Guang
Children
15 children, including Kang Tongbi
Relatives
Kang Youpu (brother)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Kang.
Kang Youwei
Traditional Chinese
康有為
Simplified Chinese
康有为
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Kāng Yǒuwéi
Wade–Giles
K'ang1 Yu3-wei2
IPA
[kʰáŋ jòʊ.wěɪ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Hōng Yáuh-wàih
Jyutping
Hong1 Jau5-wai4
IPA
[hɔːŋ˥ jɐu˩˧.wɐi˩]
Other names
Courtesy name (zi)
Traditional Chinese
廣廈
Hanyu Pinyin
Guǎngshà¹
Yale Romanization
Gwóng-hah
Courtesy names (hao)
Traditional Chinese
長素
Hanyu Pinyin
Chángsù
Yale Romanization
Chèuhng-sou
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
明夷
Hanyu Pinyin
Míngyí
Yale Romanization
Mìhng-yìh
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
更生 or 更甡
Hanyu Pinyin
Gēngshēng
Yale Romanization
Gāng-sāng
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
西樵山人
Hanyu Pinyin
Xīqiáo Shānrén
Yale Romanization
Sāi-chīu Sāan-yàhn
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
游存叟
Hanyu Pinyin
Yóucúnsǒu
Yale Romanization
Yàuh-chyùhn-sáu
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
天游化人
Hanyu Pinyin
Tiānyóu Huàrén
Yale Romanization
Tīn-yàuh Fa-yàhn
¹ K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium gives Guǎngxià 廣夏
Kang Youwei (Chinese: 康有為; Cantonese: Hōng Yáuh-wàih; 19March 1858 – 31March 1927) was a prominent political thinker and reformer in China of the late Qing dynasty. His increasing closeness to and influence over the young Guangxu Emperor sparked conflict between the emperor and his adoptive mother, the regent Empress Dowager Cixi. His ideas were influential in the abortive Hundred Days' Reform. Following the coup by Cixi that ended the reform, Kang was forced to flee. He continued to advocate for a Chinese constitutional monarchy after the founding of the Republic of China.
KangYouwei (Chinese: 康有為; Cantonese: Hōng Yáuh-wàih; 19 March 1858 – 31 March 1927) was a prominent political thinker and reformer in China of the late...
(1875–1926), a member of the Confucian Church (孔教会; Kǒngjiàohuì) of KangYouwei. KangYouwei himself was the president of the church during the last year of...
social institution of the congregational type. It was first proposed by KangYouwei (1858–1927) near the end of the 19th century, as a state religion of...
revolutionaries debated reform officials and constitutional monarchists such as KangYouwei and Liang Qichao over how to transform the Manchu-ruled empire into a...
Kang Tongbi (Chinese: 康同璧; pinyin: Kāng Tóngbì; 1887–1969), also romanized as Kang Tung Pih, was the daughter of KangYouwei, a Chinese reformer and political...
were to succeed. In 1898, the Guangxu Emperor turned to reformers like KangYouwei and Liang Qichao who offered a program inspired in large part by the...
house of KangYouwei is located in Fushan Road, Qingdao. It is near by Xiaoyu Hill. In history, when Germany came to invade Qingdao, KangYouwei visited...
"Confucian church" as the state religion of China has roots in the thought of KangYouwei, an exponent of the early New Confucian search for a regeneration of...
inspired young activists. In his youth, Liang Qichao joined his teacher KangYouwei in the reform movement of 1898. When the movement was defeated, he fled...
Columbia - where its named building still stands - on 20 July 1899 by KangYouwei who had fled China to escape the death penalty. At its peak the association...
modernizing reforms with the help of more progressive officials such as KangYouwei and Liang Qichao. Changes ranged from infrastructure to industry and...
late Qing reformer KangYouwei in order to justify his theories of progress via political reform. (See KangYouwei 1987: KangYouwei Quanji: Volumes one...
individuals have proposed this idea, including Au Ku-kap [zh], a disciple of KangYouwei (who Au later fell out with due to differences in opinions). Au proposed...
words of Tu Weiming and other Confucian scholars who recover the work of KangYouwei (a Confucian reformer of the early 20th century), Confucianism revolves...
Yanwu Yan Yuan Dai Zhen Duan Yucai Ji Xiaolan Zhang Xuecheng Ruan Yuan KangYouwei Tan Sitong Hong Liangji Pan Pingge, criticised Neo-Confucianism, instead...
be an aspect of their culture that needed to be eliminated. In 1883, KangYouwei founded the Anti-Footbinding Society near Canton to combat the practice...
dynasty. They were further consolidated by Yao Jiheng [zh] (1647-1715) and KangYouwei (1858-1927) of the Qing dynasty. The 20th-century sinologists provide...
soldier of Wei during the Warring States period. Confucius meets Laozi, Shih Kang (史杠), Yuan dynasty Depiction of Laozi in E. T. C. Werner's Myths and Legends...
1895, KangYouwei and his brother Kang Guangrou (康广仁) established the "Canton Foot Emancipation Society". He asked his daughters Kang Tongwei and Kang Tongbi...
after the dissolution of mainland China's Confucian Church founded by KangYouwei in the early 20th century. As of the 2018 Indonesian census, there were...
and fellow reformer Tan Sitong were from Liuyang. Tang was chosen by KangYouwei to lead an uprising in Hankou, however he and thirty others were arrested...
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