Kang Youwei’s Former Residences

Located at 43 Mishi Hutong in Xuanwu District, this was origi- nally Nanhai Guild Hall of Guangdong Province. Kang Youwei lived in the central yard of its northern side courtyard where there used to be seven trees, hence the name“Seven-Tree House.”The three western rooms in the house were bed- rooms, the four ones in the north were his study among which there is one in the shape of a boat, called by Kang as “Hanmanfang (Boat Flowing on Sweat).”From the time when Kang came to Beijing to take the imperial examination in 1882 to 1898 when the Reformist Movement failed, Kang lived in the Seven-Tree House of the Nanhai Guild Hall.

Kang Youwei’s Former Residences

Kang Youwei（1858-1927）, a native of Nanhai in Guangdong Province, was a palace graduate in Emperor Guangxu’s reign and the leader of the reform movement at the end of the Qing Dynasty. He submitted written petitions seven times to Em- peror Guangxu, calling for a political reform.