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. We have rented a building, prepared
rooms, and propose to have a club where we can assemble whenever
we have leisure, for conversation, discussion, reading, lectures
or whatever will best contribute to the ends we have in view."
"And what are those ends?" I inquired.
"The bringing about of a new regime in China," he answered. "Our
recent defeat by the Japanese has shown us that unless some
radical changes are made we must take a second place among the
peoples of the Orient."
"This is a new move in Peking, is it not?"
"New in Peking," he answered, "but not new in the empire. Reform
clubs are being organized in all the great cities and capitals.
In Hsian, books have been purchased by all classes from the
governor of the province down to the humblest scholar, and the
aristocracy have organized classes, and are inviting the
foreigners to lecture to them. Every one, except a few of the
oldest conservative scholars, are discarding their Confucian
theories and reconstructing their ideas in view of present day
problems. There is an intellectual fermentation now going on from
which a new China is certain to be evolved, and we propose to be
ready for it when it comes."
The leader of this reform party was Kang Yu-wei, a young
Cantonese, who had made a thorough study of the reforms of Peter
the Great in Russia, and the more recent reforms in Japan, the
history of which he had prepared in two volumes which he sent to
the Emperor
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