I finally had a block of time to read today and am catching up. I just finished reading about "Wild Fox Kang," the 100 days of reform, and subsequent imprisonment of the Quangxu Emperor. Fascinating!
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Kang's reputation serves as an important barometer for the political attitudes of his time. In the span of less than twenty years, he went from being regarded as an iconoclastic radical to an anachronistic pariah. In Jung Chang's biography of the Empress Dowager, he is depicted as a self-serving zealot who was always seeking personal power above national considerations.
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