11 Facts About Jiang Kanghu

Jiang Kanghu was arrested as a traitor following the war, and died in a Shanghai jail in 1954.

Jiang Kanghu, whose reading abilities included Japanese, English, French, and German, learned and began to develop a passion for socialism and anarchism while studying and traveling in Europe and Japan.

Jiang Kanghu served briefly as a professor at Peking University, but was ousted from that position on the grounds of his ideological radicalism.

Jiang Kanghu supplied word by word literal translations, then Bynner wrote poems in English which achieved a remarkable balance of faithfulness and literary quality.

Jiang Kanghu's views influenced contemporary Chinese who later became major political figures in China.

Jiang Kanghu attempted to provide a traditional sanction for nationalizing agriculture by arguing that in antiquity there had existed an agrarian socialist utopia built around the well-field system that vanished after the Qin dynasty abolished the public ownership of land.

Jiang Kanghu promoted the abolition of private property, a model of rapid industrialization led by the state, as much local self-government as possible, the establishment of universal public schooling, and the advancement of women's rights.

In 1922, Jiang Kanghu visited Taiyuan, Shanxi, three times, with the intention of convincing the local warlord, Yan Xishan, of the need to carry out political, social, and economic reforms in Shanxi.

In 1935, Jiang Kanghu again visited Taiyuan, after Yan Xishan announced plans to implement a system of land reform in Shanxi.

Jiang Kanghu accepted Wang's offer and traveled to Shanghai, where he wrote "The Shuangshijie Declaration about this Situation", asserting the establishment of a New East Asian Order.

Jiang Kanghu was appointed Chief of the Examination Yuan in March 1942, served as Minister of Personnel, and reopened the Southern University he had previously operated.