Yu-wei

Empress Tze-hi deprived Emperor Kwang Siu of all his power, he made a strong attempt to reform the administration of his empire with the assistance of K'ang Yu-wei and others.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Kang Yu-wei is therefore the arch conspirator, and his chief assistant is Liang Chi-tsao, M. A., and they are both to be immediately arrested and punished for the crime of rebellion.

Court Life In China 1909

The radical reformers, followers of Kang Yu-wei, have been making such a hubbub about the matter ever since the death of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager that somebody had to be punished.

Court Life In China 1909

Three days after the foregoing, on September 29th, she issued another edict purporting to come from the Emperor, ordering the punishment of Kang Yu-wei and others of his confreres.

Court Life In China 1909

Kang Yu-wei, the young ` ` Confucius, '' fled, but the Empress Dowager seized his brother and five other patriotic young reformers, and ordered them beheaded on the public execution grounds in Peking.

Court Life In China 1909

Now, if it is true that Kang Yu-wei advised the Emperor to behead Jung Lu and imprison the Empress Dowager, for no cause whatsoever, how would you have been inclined to treat him supposing you had been in her place?

Court Life In China 1909

` ` It is generally supposed, '' says one of her critics, ` ` that Kang Yu-wei suggested to the Emperor, that if he would render his own position secure, he must retire the Empress Dowager, and decapitate Jung Lu. ''

Court Life In China 1909

Imperial Family is to be removed from Peking and the Imperial allowance greatly reduced, whilst the proscription of such out - and-out imperialists as Kang Yu-wei has destroyed the last vestiges of public support.

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

Written by the famous reformer of 1898 Kang Yu-wei, it demonstrates how greatly the revolutionists of 1911 are in advance of a school which was the vogue less than twenty years ago and which is completely out of touch with the thought which the war has made world-wide.

The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903

Kang Yu-wei, as we have already shown, to whom was thus offered one of the greatest opportunities that was ever given to a human being -- that of being the leader in this great reform.

Court Life in China Isaac Taylor Headland 1900