Lü Liuliang
Lü Liuliang (
Career
In 1647 one of his nephews was executed for anti-Qing activity. Lü took active part in the anti-Manchu military movement that followed the fall of the Ming in 1644.[
Lü Liuliang wrote a famous
Lü is also one of the most prominent cases in Chinese history of literary inquisition. After Lü's death, an official named Zeng Jing was inspired by his anti-Qing writing to attempt to overthrow the Yongzheng Emperor. As a result, in 1733, Lü's corpse and that of one of his sons were exhumed and mutilated, another son was executed, his grandsons were exiled and female relatives enslaved, and all of his writings were banned. Two of his followers were treated similarly.[2]
He is a character in Jin Yong's wuxia novel The Deer and the Cauldron.
Notes
- ^ Lydia Liu (2004), 84. Lü's original sentence was "Hua-Yi zhi fen da yu jun-chen zhi yi" 華夷之分,大於君臣之義.
- ISBN 9781136791413.
References
- ISBN 978-0-674-01307-0.
Further reading
- Jonathan Spence.
- A Translucent Mirror, by Pamela Kyle Crossley.
- Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.