Modernist Reformers in Islam, Hinduism and Confucianism, 1865-1935 by Christian Lekon

Author:Christian Lekon [Lekon, Christian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781317284642
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-11T03:27:22+00:00

Last years in exile

K’ang kept on his nomadic lifestyle, moving through North America, Europe, Morocco, the Ottoman Empire, India, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong and Japan. Some of these travels were again connected with the organization’s business company. After initial years of success, the company was hit by the global economic downturn of 1907, the Mexican revolution of 1910 and overextension and mismanagement.88

In the meanwhile, things started to move on the political front. In 1906, the ailing Ch’ing regime made some tentative steps towards constitutionalism. K’ang responded by renaming his exile organization from the ‘Emperor Protection Society’ to Kuo-min hsien-cheng hui (National Constitutional Society). In another ‘petition’ to the court submitted in 1908, K’ang argued that any constitution would be meaningless unless a parliament would be immediately convened.89 This was a departure from his previously more careful stance, according to which an appointed advisory council and local self-government should precede full-scale parliamentary government. In the following year, K’ang recommended China to follow the political model of Germany (whose parliament had limited power while the government was responsible to the Emperor) rather than that of Great Britain, France and the USA. Having previously praised the last two countries for already approaching the Great Unity, he now argued that there was too much freedom there.90 In 1910, he reasserted the need to abolish the province as an administrative division. For a constitutional regime to work, it was necessary to break the excessive power of the provincial governors and thus to strengthen the central administration.91

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