Historian, Journalist, Philosopher, Politician. He inspired Chinese scholars with his writings and reform movements. As an advocate of constitutional monarchy, he was unhappy with the governance of the Qing Government and wanted to change the status quo in China. He and Kang Youwei organized reforms by putting their ideas on paper and sending them to the Guangxu Emperor. This movement is known as the Hundred Days' Reform. Their proposal asserted that China was in need of more than "self-strengthening", and called for many institutional and ideological changes such as getting rid of corruption and remodeling the state examination system. This proposal soon ignited disagreement, and he became a wanted man by order of Empress Dowager Cixi, who condemned the reform as being too radical. In 1898, he fled to Japan, and stayed there for the next 14 years. In Japan, he advocated the democratic cause by using his writings to raise support for the reformers’ cause among overseas governments. With the overthrow of the Qing dynasty, constitutional monarchy became an irrelevant topic. He merged his renamed Democratic Party with the Republicans to form the new Progressive Party. He was one of the biggest advocates of entering World War I on the Allied side. He felt it would boost China's status and also ameliorate foreign debts. In the late 1920s, he retired from politics and taught at the Tung-nan University in Shanghai and the Tsinghua Research Institute in Peking. As a historian and a journalist, he believed that both careers must have the same purpose and moral commitment. In addition, he used his literary works to further spread his views both in China and across the world. He produced a biweekly journal called New Citizen, which was first published in 1902. In the journal, he coined many Chinese equivalents for never-before-heard theories or expressions and used the journal to help communicate public opinion in China to faraway readers. He also wrote scholarly essays on fiction, which included "Fleeing to Japan after failure of Hundred Days' Reform" and the essay "On the Relationship Between Fiction and the Government of the People". During this last decade of his life, he wrote many books documenting Chinese cultural history, literary history and historiography. In 1926, he suddenly suffered from hematuria. He died three years later in 1929.