14 Facts About Chen Tianhua

Chen Tianhua was a Chinese revolutionary born in Xinhua, Hunan province to a poor peasant family during the Qing dynasty.

Chen Tianhua enrolled into the new-style Qiushi Academy in his hometown Xinhua in the late 1890s.

Chen Tianhua became a radical politician soon after reaching Japan, and wrote two pamphlets which were popular among revolutionaries, A Sudden Look Back and An Alarm to Awaken the Age.

Chen Tianhua returned to China after seven months and helped found an anti-Qing revolutionary group engaged in insurrection in Changsha, Hunan.

Chen Tianhua was forced twice to flee to Japan after the closure of his journal Liyu Bao and the failure of a planned insurrection against Qing.

Chen Tianhua was an editor of newspaper The People's Daily, and wrote a novel called The Lion's Roar.

Chen Tianhua wrote in May 1903, a two part critique published in the Shanghai journal Subao entitled On the Corrupt and Rotten Hunan guanbao.

Chen Tianhua criticized the gazette's contents for being too militant, prodding it to add essays and news and to slip free of the provincial authorities.

Chen Tianhua joined the Anti-Russia Voluntary Patriotic Corps and in 1903 which he reorganized into the Headquarters of National along with Zou Rong.

Chen Tianhua worked with other members of the society to incite armed uprisings among the Qing troops and secret societies.

Chen Tianhua integrated traditional values into a pattern of racial unity in his pamphlets, which were read throughout the Yangzi valley.

Chen Tianhua argued that men are close only to people of their own family, and that when two families fight, one only assists one's own family.

Chen Tianhua argued that the Han race was one big family, and that the Yellow Emperor is the great ancestor.

Chen Tianhua committed suicide in Tokyo Bay by drowning himself to protest against Japanese restrictions imposed on the activities of Chinese students in December 1905.