GASB58H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Empress Dowager Cixi, Guangxu Emperor, Kang Youwei
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Kang youwei a brilliant classical scholar who had drawn on his great classical learning to try to demonstrate that confucius had not resisted social change and that confucianism did not deny the basic ideas of human development and progress. Kang and other reformers convinced guangxu emperor to introduce constitutional government, and to modernize the military, the education system, and other institutions in order to better defend china from western imperialism. The young emperor guangxu, actually had no political power to make any changes and the efects were negligible. Unlike sun, he is a royal scholar, who is the founder of the royalist society. Liang is one of the leaders of hundred day"s reforms, although it failed, but there is no doubt that he was the evangelist of democracy in. In spite of his politic opinion, he was also well-known by remarkable literary achievement.
