Liang Ch'i-ch'ao , 1873-1929, Chinese reform leader. Liang was a disciple of K'ang Yu-wei . Stunned by China's disastrous defeat by Japan (see Sino-Japanese War, First ), K'ang and Liang launched (1895) a movement for constitutional and educational reform. The movement received the backing of Emperor Kuang-hsu in 1898, but the "hundred days' reform" was aborted by the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi . Liang fled to Japan where he continued to promote gradualist reform and constitutional monarchy. Although his writings had a great influence on the constitutional movement within China,...
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