Person1848 – 1905

Huang Zunxian

Counsellor at the Qing legation in Tokyo who wrote A Strategy for Korea and gave it to Kim Hong-jip

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2 related events

  1. 1

    Envoy Kim Hong-jip brought back from Japan the Qing diplomat Huang Zunxian’s A Strategy for Korea, which urged Korea to align with China, Japan and the United States against Russia.

  2. 2

    As A Strategy for Korea circulated, more than ten thousand Yeongnam Confucian scholars led by Yi Man-son petitioned against the reforms and relations with America.

People who appear alongside

  • Kim Hong-jip1842 – 1896

    Prime minister who led the Gabo Reform; killed by a crowd after the king fled to the Russian legation

  • Yi Man-son1811 – 1891

    Gyeongsang Confucian scholar who headed the 1881 Yeongnam Memorial of Ten Thousand against A Strategy for Korea

  • Gojong1852 – 1919

    Twenty-sixth king of Joseon and first emperor of the Korean Empire