梁启超

梁啟超

LiángQǐchāo

proper noun

Meanings

1 Liang Qichao (1873-1929)
2 influential late-Qing reformer, journalist, and scholar

Characters

surname Liang; beam

to open, enlighten

Examples

梁启超是戊戌变法的主要推动者之一。

Liángqǐchāo shì Wùxū biànfǎ de zhǔyào tuīdòng zhě zhīyī.

Liang Qichao was a leading driver of the Hundred Days' Reform.

他的文章在清末广为流传。

Tā de wénzhāng zài Qīng mò guǎng wéi liúchuán.

His essays circulated widely in the late Qing.

Tips

history

Student of reformer Kang Youwei (康有为). After the failure of the 1898 Hundred Days' Reform, he fled to Japan and used the newspaper 《新民丛报》 to introduce Western political ideas and popularize terms still used today (e.g. 经济, 社会, 民主). His son Liang Sicheng (梁思成) became China's foremost architectural historian.

Stroke Order

梁 liáng

启 qǐ

超 chāo