Kang Youwei, Chinese scholar and politician (died 1927)

Kang Youwei

Chinese political thinker and reformer (1858–1927)

Kang Youwei was a 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…