Kang Youwei, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kang Youwei

Chinese politician and scholar

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1858

Place of Birth: Nanhai District, Guangdong, China

Date of Death: 31-Mar-1927

Profession: writer, politician, journalist, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Kang Youwei (Chinese: ???; Cantonese: Hong Yáuh-wàih; 19 March 1858 – 31 March 1927) was a Chinese philosopher and politician.
He was also a noted calligrapher and prominent political thinker and reformer of the late Qing dynasty.
Through his connections, he became close to the young Guangxu Emperor and fervently encouraged him to promote his friends and consequently soured the relationship between the emperor and his adoptive mother, the powerful Empress Dowager Cixi.
His ideas inspired a reformation movement.
Although he continued to advocate a constitutional monarchy after the founding of the Republic, Kang's political theory was never put into practice as he was forced to flee China for repeated attempts to assassinate the empress dowager.
He was an ardent Chinese nationalist and internationalist.