Zou Rong

Introduction

Zou Rong, author of the influential and outspoken book The Revolutionary Army in 1903, expresses this sentiment, ranging from advocating a strong vision of "race", imported from Japan [Spence 1990. With the triumphant spread of socialist ideology is a conception ethicized "minorities" national, borrowed from the Soviet Union, the Communists were accredited, the establishment of "autonomous districts" reserved for minority ethnic groups was a reflection rigorous principle of "one nation, one state, territory, which implies full political subordination of these entities. He was a member of the Students' Union patriots created Chang Ping-lin and Tsai Yuan-peem. Ardent patriot, Zou Rong was the author became very popular booklet "The army of the Revolution", published in 1903

Zou Rong: The Revolutionary Army

Born in Sichuan province in West China in 1885 to a merchant family, Zou received a classical education but refused to sit for the civil service exams, preferring instead to work as a seal carver while pursuing his idiosyncratic classical studies.

Zou Rong was born into a merchant family in Baxian, Sichuan, and received a good classical education at an early age. Inspired by the writings of Tan Sitong, martyr of the Hundred Days Reform (1898), he refused to take the civil service examination but turned to the new learning instead. In 1898, he studied English and Japanese with two Japanese at Chongqing. Under their influence, Zou went to Shanghai in 1901 and enrolled in the Jiangnan Arsenal's language school. The next year he continued his studies in the Tokyo Dobun Shoin.

In Japan, Zou was quickly converted to revolution. He played an active role in the anti-Russian movement organized by the Chinese students, and drafted the anti-Manchu pamphlet, The Revolutionary Army (Gemingjun). In early 1903, he returned to Shanghai after getting into conflict with a Qing official in Tokyo.

In Shanghai, Zou made the acquaintance of Zhang Binglin, who edited and prefaced The Revolutionary Army before its publication in May 1903. Afterward, Zhang contributed two essays to Subao, a revolutionary newspaper: the first one condemned the reformers and Emperor Guangxu; the second reviewed Zou's work in a favorable light. The seditious articles drew the attention of the Qing government, which pres-sured the police of the international settlement to arrest Zhang, Zou, and four other radicals. Zhang was arrested on June 29 and Zou gave himself up several days later. The Qing government attempted to have them extradited, but the British consul refused to accede to Chinese demands on the pretext that the prisoners might suffer the same fate as Shen Jin, a reporter and a friend of Tang Caichang (leader of the Zilijun Uprising in 1900), who was beaten to death by the Beijing authorities. The Subao case, as it was called, was tried by the Mixed Court in Shanghai. Zhang received a sentence of three years, and Zou two years. Zou died in prison in 1905, at the age of twenty.

Zou Rong's work was regarded as the most popular tract in the anti-Manchu republican. Its popularity lay in Zou's bombastic ...