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Fang Junying (1884–1923) was a Chinese revolutionary.
She was the niece of the progressive reformer Fang Jiashi, a follower of
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644–1911
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Fang Junying (1884–1923) was a Chinese revolutionary.
She was the niece of the progressive reformer Fang Jiashi, a follower of Weng Tonghe
Weng Tonghe (; 1830–1904), courtesy name Shuping (), was a Chinese Confucian scholar and imperial tutor who lived in the Qing dynasty. In 1856, he obtained the position of '' zhuangyuan'' (or top scholar) in the imperial examination and was sub ...
, and sister of the revolutionaries Fang Shengdong and Fang Shengtao. From 1901 to 1911, she studied in Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
, and became involved with the revolutionary republican movements among the Chinese students there. She became a member of the Tonghmenghui in 1905, and head of its assassination section in 1907. In 1908, she participated in a planned assassination of Prince regent Zaifeng
Zaifeng (12 February 1883 – 3 February 1951), also known as Tsai Feng, Prince of Ch'ün, formally known by his title Prince Chun, was a Manchu prince and regent of the late Qing dynasty. He was a son of Yixuan, the seventh son of the Da ...
. She was one of the ideologists who planned the Guangzhou Uprising
The Guangzhou Uprising, Canton Uprising or Canton Riots of 1927 was a failed communist uprising in the city of Guangzhou (Canton) in southern China.
Background
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Guangdong Provincial Committee had been pre ...
on 27 April 1911.
From 1912 to 1922, she studied in France
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. Upon her return to China, she committed suicide through an overdose of morphine
Morphine, formerly also called morphia, is an opiate that is found naturally in opium, a dark brown resin produced by drying the latex of opium poppies (''Papaver somniferum''). It is mainly used as an analgesic (pain medication). There are ...
. She stated her reason as her sorrow over the rampant corruption in China.
References
* Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Lau, A.D. Stefanowska:Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644–1911
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