User:Zeqin/Liang Qichao

Liang Qichao (1873-1929) was a philosopher, a politician, educator, historian, journalist and novelist in modern China. His articles were published to encourage the youths to accept the new thought. He focused on reformation to learn the western knowledge for development, and he participated the Hundred Days Reform with his teacher Kang Youwei (1858- 1972) in 1898. He escaped to Japan after the failure of the Hundred Days Reform. He advocated the New Culture Movement, and he published his articles in the magazine New Youth to expand the thought of science and democracy in 1910s. In the Education field, In the Education field, he thought the education of children had important relationship of the destiny of modern China, and he was impacted by a social-Darwinian perspective to researched approaches to combine the western thought and Chinese learning. His thought had significant influence in Modern China.

Politician

Liang Qichao had the idea of nationalism, and he advocated reformation and constitutional monarchy to change the social situation of the Qing dynasty. Liang Qichao thought about two relative questions in politics in late-Qing dynasty. The first one was the ways that transformed people became citizen for modernization, and Liang Qichao thought Chinese needed to improve civic ethos to build the nation-state in the Qing dynasty, and then the second one was the question of the citizenship, and Liang Qichao thought both of them were important to support the reformation in the Qing dynasty. Liang Qichao learned the new political thought and regime of the Western countries, and he learned these from the Japanese translation books, and he learned the Western thought through Meiji Japan to analyze the knowledge of the West.

Educator

As an educator, Liang Qichao thought children were the future of the development of China, and he thought the traditional education approaches needed to be changed, and the educational reformation was important. His ideas of education were influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution, and he thought the Western educational system had benefits to learn, and he thought children needed to cultivate creative thinking and improve the ability of understanding, and the western thought and knowledge could be learned, and the new schools which adapt the Chinese situation could instruct children the new knowledge.