Liang Qichao 1873 – 1929

Liang Qichao was a Chinese reformer, journalist, and philosopher and one of the leading intellectuals of the late Qing and early Republican period. A student of Kang Youwei and a leading figure of the failed Hundred Days' Reform of 1898, he spent his subsequent exile in Japan editing influential journals through which Western political and philosophical ideas reached a generation of Chinese readers. His New Citizen essays argued that the renewal of China required the cultivation of a new conception of citizenship, while his later writings on Buddhism, Confucianism, and the philosophy of history shaped the modern Chinese intellectual landscape. He served briefly in the early Republican government.