Monday, September 30, 2013

Tan Sitong’s Former Residences

Located at 41 Beibanjie Hutong in Xuanwu District, this was once the site of the Liuyang Guild of Hunan Province. Tan Sitong lived here in 1898 when he was in Beijing.
Tan Sitong’s Former Residences
Tan Sitong (1865-98), from Liuyang in Hunan Province, was a famous statesman, thinker and reformist in China’s modern history. He was ex- ecuted after the defeat of the 1898 Reform Move- ment and was widely known as one of the movement’s Six Men of Honor.

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