A CHINESE THINKER.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12403, 19 November 1908, Page 3

A CHINESE THINKER.

KANG YU WEI. "It is now generally admitted that ha is the greatest scholar and thinker since Confucius." Such was stated in Sydney last week to be tbe concensus of opinion of the Chinese of the world regarding Jiang Yu Wei, ox-Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire, and president of the Chinese Reform Association, who has arrived at Colombo on a tour of the world. M r Ping Nam, president of the New South Wales branch of the Association, has received notification of hia intention to visit Sydney. Though Kan Yu Wei is a political exile, with a price of J875C0 on bis head, one of the leading Chinese of Sydney remarked that'he is r known as the "saviour of China," and is regarded by all the mora ' progressive of his race as a true patriot, a broad-minded philosopher, a thorough gentleman^- and a literary giant. Lord • Beresford was quoted as having referred to the loyalty, patrotism, and, unselfish devotion to lis oountry of .this Celestial paragon. When, asked bvTord Charles who were thereformers of China who had been pub lieJy executed. Kang h ad replied, six men of good birth (one his own brother), education- : apd culture.. Reform. in China, he had_added, invariably required martyrs, ': -and t >f China wisre not broken up posterity would honour the heroic patriotism of 'those six men. Tha'Chinese of Sydney arearranging a reception.