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China’s Reform and Anti-Qing Revolution in Hong Kong (1841-1911)
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China’s Reform and Anti-Qing Revolution in Hong Kong: an Overview
After Hong Kong was established as a free port, some local scholars and students as well as those from the Chinese mainland gained new insights and developed new thinking from the evolving social environment and Western thoughts. Thinkers and revolutionaries such as Wang Tao, Ho Kai, Woo Lai-woon, and Sun Yat-sen were some prominent examples. Hong Kong became the advocate and thought leader of reform and revolution for modern China.
China’s Reform and Anti-Qing Revolution in Hong Kong: an Overview
After Hong Kong was established as a free port, some local scholars and students as well as those from the Chinese mainland gained new insights and developed new thinking from the evolving social environment and Western thoughts. Thinkers and revolutionaries such as Wang Tao, Ho Kai, Woo Lai-woon, and Sun Yat-sen were some prominent examples. Hong Kong became the advocate and thought leader of reform and revolution for modern China.
(1) Wang Tao’s Thoughts and Hong Kong
Chinese thinker Wang Tao lived in Hong Kong for a long time, where he found crucial for his ideas for reforming modern China to develop.
(2) Hong Kong and China’s Reform
Thinkers in Hong Kong, including Ho Kai and Woo Lai-woon, advocated reform ideas that would help China progress. Their ideas inspired people such as Kang Youwei and laid the foundation of the Hundred Days’ Reform.
(3) Sun Yat-sen Studying in Hong Kong
In 1883, the 17-year-old Sun Yat-sen arrived in Hong Kong, where he received two years secondary and five years university education. His stay in Hong Kong was crucial to the development of his revolutionary thoughts.
(4) Sun Yat-sen’s Revolutionary Activities in Hong Kong
Hong Kong had a great contribution to the revolutionary movement in the Chinese mainland. People such as Sun Yat-sen once advocated the anti-Qing revolution in Hong Kong. They also established revolutionary groups, raised funds, recruited fellows, and planned armed uprisings in Hong Kong.