Tan Sitong

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Tan Sitong

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Why Is Tan Sitong Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Tan Sitong , courtesy name Fusheng , pseudonym Zhuangfei , was a well-known Chinese politician, thinker, and reformist in the late Qing dynasty . He was executed at the age of 33 when the Hundred Days' Reform failed in 1898. Tan Sitong was one of the six gentlemen of the Hundred Days' Reform, and occupies an important place in modern Chinese history. To many contemporaries, his execution symbolized the political failure of the Qing dynasty's reformation, helping to persuade the intellectual class to pursue violent revolution and overthrow the Qing dynasty.

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