Zou Rong
Zou Rong ( Chinese 鄒容 / 邹容 , W.-G. Tsou Jung , born 1885 in Ba County ( 巴 县 "Baxian"), Sichuan (today Banan District , Chongqing ); died 1905 in Shanghai ) was a Chinese democratic revolutionary , Anarchist and nationalist writer . He is best known for having written a revolutionary essay that the overthrow Qing Dynasty of the Manchu advocated.
Zou Rong went to Japan to study in 1902 and returned to China in 1903. Together with other revolutionaries like Chen Duxiu, he cut off his braid , which was an act of rebellion against the prevailing Qing dynasty.
The revolutionary army
In Shanghai he joined the rebellious intellectual Zhang Binglin and published his pamphlet The Revolutionary Army ( Geming jun革命 军) in Zhang's magazine Subao (苏 報 / 苏 报, Su = abbreviation for Jiangsu). The essay advocated the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty, which brought both him and Zhang to court in Shanghai. He was sentenced to prison for crimes of majesty. Zou died in prison in 1905 and was a martyr of the Republican movement in China.
Fonts
- Geming jun 革命 军 [ The Revolutionary Army ]. Zhonghua shuju , 1971 ( HYDZD Bibliography 2632)
See also
- Liu Shipei
- Geming jun (Chinese)
- Subao Affair ( Subao an ) (Chinese)
References and footnotes
- ↑ See the translation and work by John Lust.
literature
- 汉英 中国 哲学 辞典. 开封 2002.
- Zou Rong, John Lust (trans.): The Revolutionary Army: a Chinese Nationalist Tract of 1903. Mouton, Paris 1968. ( Review )
- J. Lust: The "Su-Pao" Case: An Episode in the Early Chinese Nationalist Movement. In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Volume 27, no. 2, 1964, pp. 408-429.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zou Rong |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 鄒容; 邹容; Tsou, Jung; Zou, Weidan; Tsou, Wei-tan; Zou Rong |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese democratic revolutionary and anarchist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ba County, Sichuan (Chongqing) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1905 |
| Place of death | Shanghai |