Huaxinghui
political organization
The Huaxinghui (traditional Chinese: 華興會; simplified Chinese: 华兴会; pinyin: Huáxīng Huì; Wade–Giles: Hua-hsing hui), commonly translated as the China Revival Society or China Arise Society, was founded by Huang Xing and Zhang Shizhao on 15 February 1904 with the election of Huang Xing as its president, in Changsha of Hunan for the explicit political goal of overthrowing the Qing dynasty and establishing a democratic and free country. Many of its members later became key figures of the Tongmenghui.
Background
In 1903, Russian Empire made seven requests to the Qing Dynasty in an attempt to invade and occupy Northeast China. This action shook Japan. The Asahi Shimbun first published this news, and the Chinese students studying in Japan held a student conference at the Kinkikwan (錦輝館) in Tokyo. In early June, Huang Xing returned to China from Japan as an "athlete" of the Army and National Education Association (軍國民教育會) and planned new actions in Hunan and Hubei. On November 4, 1903, in the name of celebrating his 30th birthday, Huang Xing invited Liu Kuiyi (劉揆一), Song Jiaoren, Zhang Shizhao and others to hold a secret meeting at the home of Peng Yuanxun (彭淵恂), Baojia Bureau Lane, West District of Changsha, and decided to organize an anti-Qing revolutionary group to name "Huaxinghui", and called it "Huaxing Company" (華興公司) to the outside. The group's members amounted to hundreds of people, mostly intellectuals. Its purpose was to "expel the Tatar barbarians and revive Zhonghua" (驅除韃虜，復興中華); its strategy was to launch a war in Hunan, and the provinces respond to "go straight to Youyan" (直搗幽燕).
History
The China Revival Society was dominated by students from Hunan who had returned from Japan.
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