On this day in history, Huang Yuansheng, a well-known journalist of the Republic of China, was assassinated by the revolutionary party

On December 27, 1915, the famous journalist Huang Yuansheng was shot and killed by revolutionaries in an American home on charges of Yuan.

Huang Yuansheng, the name of the base, the word Yuanyong, and the word Yuansheng. People from Jiujiang, Jiangxi. Born on January 15, 1885. In 1904, he was admitted to the jinshi. He studied in Japan and specialized in law at Chuo University. After returning to China, he successively served as a foreign minister of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, a walker in the Senate Hall, a revisionist in the Compilation Bureau, and a lecturer at the Law and Politics Training Institute. After the Xinhai Revolution, he resigned his official post and concentrated on journalism. The darkness of the political situation in the early years of the Republic of China and the ugliness of the new bureaucrats were faithfully recorded and pungently ridiculed. During Yuan Shikai's preparations for the title of emperor, he hired him as the chief writer of the Shanghai edition of the imperial newspaper Asia Daily, but insisted on resigning, and published "Huang Yuansheng's Notice of Opposition to the Imperial System and Resignation from yuan newspapers" in various Newspapers in Shanghai to show his refusal. In the winter of 1915, he visited the United States. After being killed.

Huang Yuansheng was killed, and at that time, the spearhead was directed at Yuan Shikai, because Huang Yuansheng opposed the imperial system and even called Yuan Shikai a yuan thief in the newspaper. However, the truth came out later, and Huang was killed by the revolutionary party. From the Xinhai Revolution to the early years of the Republic of China, the revolutionary party did have a tradition of assassination, with Wang Jingwei assassinating the regent, Chiang Kai-shek assassinating Tao Chengzhang, and later Chen Qimei assassinated. Even the Song Jiaoren case is still confusing. And well-known journalists exposed the ugliness of the officialdom, and their sharp writing offended these bureaucrats. In the end, shameless politicians were assassinated, in addition to Huang Yuansheng, shao piaoping, Zou Taofen and other well-known news people were assassinated.