Liang Qichao

Where they went

2 related events

1. 1
   1898Hundred Days’ Reform and the Coup of 1898participant

   Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao persuaded the Guangxu Emperor to launch reforms toward a constitutional monarchy on the Meiji model, but Empress Dowager Cixi’s coup ended them after about a hundred days.

2. 2
   1905 – 1909Đông Du Movement in Vietnamrelated figure

   Phan Bội Châu sent young Vietnamese to study in Japan to train leaders against France. It ended when Japan came to terms with France.

People who appear alongside

• Kang Youwei1858 – 1927

  Qing reformer who led the Hundred Days’ Reform, seeking a constitutional monarchy on the model of Meiji Japan

• Guangxu Emperor1871 – 1908

  Eleventh Qing emperor (r. 1875–1908) who backed Kang Youwei’s reforms but was confined after the coup of 1898

• Empress Dowager Cixi1835 – 1908

  Consort of the Xianfeng Emperor and mother of the Tongzhi Emperor who held real power in Qing China for nearly half a century and crushed the 1898 reforms

• Phan Bội Châu1867 – 1940

  Vietnamese nationalist who founded the Modernization Society, led the Đông Du (Go East) movement sending students to Japan and wrote the History of the Loss of Vietnam

Themes this person appears in

• The Opening of East Asia1839 – 1901

  From the Opium War to the Boxer Protocol — sixty years in which China, Japan and Korea, forced open by Western gunboats, each tried to reform and went separate ways

• Imperialism and the Partition of the World1839 – 1914

  From the Tanzimat to Sarajevo — seventy-five years in which the powers carved up West Asia, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific, and the peoples there answered with reform and resistance