Western Philosophy in China 19th Century

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Please read Feng Yu Lan's "A Short History of Chinese Philosophy" - Chapter 27 - The Introduction of Western Philosophy (pp. 319 ~ 331)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.260423/page/n343/mode/2up
or PDF version: https://ia804706.us.archive.org/3/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.260423/2015.260423.A-Short.pdf
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Kang Youwei (康有為 1858 – 1927) was a prominent political thinker and reformer in China of the late Qing dynasty. Kang proposed a utopian future world free of political boundaries and democratically ruled by one central government. In his scheme, the world would be split into rectangular administrative districts, which would be self-governing under a direct democracy but loyal to a central world government. There would also be the dissolution of racial boundaries. Kang outlines an immensely ambitious eugenics program that would eliminate the "brown and black" racial phenotype after a millennium and lead to the emergence of a fair-skinned homogeneous human race whose members would "be the same color, the same appearance, the same size, and the same intelligence"

Liang Qichao (梁啓超 1873 – 1929) was a Chinese politician, social and political activist, journalist, and intellectual. His thought had a significant influence on the political reformation of modern China. He inspired Chinese scholars and activists with his writings and reform movements. His translations of Western and Japanese books into Chinese further introduced new theories and ideas and inspired young activists.
In his youth, Liang Qichao joined his teacher Kang Youwei in the reform movement of 1898. When the movement was defeated, he fled to Japan and promoted a constitutional monarchy and organized political opposition to the dynasty.

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