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“And then, stationed in San Francisco, he witnessed the world of official corruption, political tricks, and the labor movement’s success in keeping out Chinese workers. This experience left Huang confused and intellectually lost. If the great civilized nations could not handle democracy, what hope was there for peoples who were still backward?”

[Kang] fantasized about teaching in America or establishing "a new China" through colonization in Brazil <-- I had no idea Kang(康有为) was such a "dreamer"...

"In 1901 Liang Qichao said that Kang was the Martin Luther of Confucianism, that is, the man who put Confucianism back on its rightful path. Fang himself would say no less. Kang's confidence in his mission seems so complete, and stories of his intellectual arrogance so numerous, that we can fairly say he had a messiah complex." <-- This author is pretty funny..