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Through China's Looking Glass

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Through China's Looking Glass

Yung Wing, my grandfather, and the seeds of China's never-ending pro-democracy movement

Aimee Liu
Oct 28, 2022
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My grandfather Liu Chengyu, age 28, left, and Yung Wing, age 76

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In 1900 my grandfather Liu Chengyu became one of China's first pro-democracy activists when he joined a student-organized plot to blow up an imperial armory near his home in Wuchang. The…

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