Liang Qichao was smart and studious since childhood. At the age of four, he began to study China's ancient classics. He is called a "child prodigy". He is a scholar at the age of twelve and a juren at the age of seventeen. 1890 studied under Kang Youwei, studied in Wanmu Caotang, accepted the idea of reform and political reform, and claimed to be "lifelong learning".
He advocated and initiated bus letters successively, actively publicized the theory of reform and reform through Strong Society and Times, participated in and led the Reform Movement of 1898, became an outstanding representative of bourgeois reformists, and promoted the historical progress of China. 1898 After the coup, he went to Japan and founded Qingyi Newspaper and Xinmin Cong Newspaper, which widely publicized the political thought and social theory of the western bourgeoisie and influenced and enlightened a whole generation.
Liang Qichao s academic contribution;
Liang Qichao is the founder of modern bourgeois historiography, and a representative figure who founded China's modern historiography theory in the early 20th century. China's Historical Narration and New Historiography, published in his early years, systematically and violently criticized China's feudal historiography for thousands of years and called for a "historical revolution".
Later, he wrote a series of papers, such as China Historical Research Law and China Historical Research Law Supplement, and constructed his theoretical system of bourgeois neo-historiography, which embodied Liang Qichao's historical view and his outstanding contribution, and had a wide and far-reaching influence.
After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, he published China's Historical Narration and New History successively, severely criticized feudal historiography, advocated "historical revolution", and systematically expounded a series of bourgeois historiography propositions such as historical function, historical philosophy, attitude and method of managing history.