Chen Chi

Chen Chi

Chen Chi (? - 1900) was a reformer in the late Qing Dynasty. The original name is Jiayao, the character is bright, and the late name is the owner of Yaolin hall. Ruijin, Jiangxi. Guangxu is full of people. Zhang Jing, a doctor of the Ministry of household affairs, Zhang Jing of the Ministry of criminal justice, and Zhang Jing of the military aircraft department, has traveled all over the coastal commercial ports, inspected Hong Kong and Macao, paid attention to the world's diseases, studied economics deeply, and advocated learning from the West for self-improvement.

In 1893 (the 19th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu), he wrote a preface to Zheng Guanying's dangerous words in the prosperous age, and wrote a hundred articles inside and outside Yongshu by himself. He criticized the shortcomings of the old system and said that it was appropriate to reform. It advocates "checking the name and reality, clarifying the administration and punishment, promoting education", setting up newspapers, running schools, and prospering industry and commerce; it proposes that China should set its own tax rules, and that the tax department is "the place of interests and power" and can not "be given to the people of other countries forever"; it advocates imitating the parliamentary system of Western capitalist countries, "taking the monarch and the people as a whole, and connecting the upper and lower levels as one heart" to "strengthen the army and enrich the country". In 1895, he and Kang Youwei organized a strong society in Beijing. He was promoted to be the principal director and the general director. He advocated reform and was appreciated by Weng Tonghe. In August of the next year, Shi Wu Bao was founded to collect donations for the capital. In 1898, the reform failed, and he died of depression and indignation the next year. He is also the author of the national policy of continued prosperity.