Architecture article
Architecture article
Liang Sicheng
Liang Sicheng was born on April 20th 1901 in Tokyo, Japan, to Liang Qichao (1873 – 1929) and his wife Li Huixian (1869 – 1924). Liang Qichao, a prominent scholar of the reformed Confucian tradition, "had leapt into fame as a leader of the reform movement of 1898," but had to leave China for Japan that same year following a conservative coup d'etat led by Empress Dowager Cixi (1835 – 1908) and the later Chinese "President-Emperor" Yuan Shikai (1859 – 1916).[1] In Japan he co-founded the Baohuang Hui (the Society for the Protection of the Emperor) with his mentor and teacher Kang Youwei. The family of Liang Sicheng eventually stayed in Japan for 14 years, where he thusly lived for most of his childhood, until they returned to China in 1912, enabled by the new permissive political climate that accompanied the anti-monarchist, republican Xinhai Revolution, first settling in Tianjin.[2] Liang Sicheng is considered the favorite son of his father.[3] According to an article of his, his memories of the time in Japan are fond, generally defined by familial peace, care by Japanese servants, attending a Chinese school and playing with his siblings.[4]
