梁启超

梁啟超

LiángQǐchāo

popculture

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。

Liáng Qǐchāo shì Wùxū Biànfǎ de zhǔyào tuīdòng zhě zhī yī.

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 Qīngmò guǎngwéi liúchuán.

His essays circulated widely in the late Qing.

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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