ARTIST(s): Liang QiChao 梁启超 (23 Feb 1873 - 19 Jan 1929) ink on paper, framed, set behind glass. Painting (Sight): Length: 131 cm, Width: 31.8 cm Signed/Seal(s): 2 artist seals, signed Dated: In The Early Summer of Ding Mao Years (1927) Comment: Each with eight normal script characters. PROVENANCE: Estate Collections of GENERAL YU BINDONG 俞濱東 (1903-1990) (AKA: 天宾) R.O.C. Presidential Palace Third Class of Major Generals, Director of Assistant Commissioner, Official bodyguard, Security guard brigade commander of the building controls, the affairs of state, presidential palace Internal business, printing and engraving branch. For more information about General Yu Bingdong 俞濱東, please follow this link: www.eden-galleries.com/yubindong/ Video Documentation on Youtube: https://youtu.be/CdiGidqkQYk Video Documentation on Youku (China): http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTE3MjYyODkwOA==.html The collections of General Yu Bindong 俞濱東 presented and offered up to auctions: ON DAY-1: From Lot-121 through Lot-141, and continued from Lot-233 through Lot-251. ON DAY-2: From Lot-393 through Lot-413, and continued from Lot-481 through Lot-493. LOT NOTES: Liang Qichao 梁启超 (23 February 1873 - 19 January 1929) was a Chinese social and political activist, journalist, and intellectual who lived during the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China. His thought had a significant influence on the political reformation of modern China. He inspired Chinese scholars and activists with his writings and reform movements. His translations of Western and Japanese books into Chinese introduced new theories and ideas and inspired young activists.In his youth, Liang Qichao joined his teacher Kang Youwei in the reform movement of 1898. When the movement was defeated, he fled to Japan and promoted a constitutional monarchy and organized political opposition to the dynasty. After the revolution of 1911, he joined Yuan Shikai's government and served as the chief justice and the first president of the currency system bureau. He became dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai and launched a movement to oppose his ambition to be emperor. After Yuan's death, he served as the finance chief of the Duan Qirui cabinet and as supervisor of the Salt Administration. He advocated the New Culture Movement and supported cultural change but not political revolution.