Fang Junying (1884–1923) was a Chinese revolutionary. She was the niece of the progressive reformer Fang Jiashi, a follower of

Weng Tonghe Weng Tonghe (; 1830–1904), courtesy name Shuping (), was a Chinese Confucian scholar and imperial tutor who lived in the Qing dynasty. In 1856, he obtained the position of ''zhuangyuan'' (or top scholar) in the imperial examination and was subs ...

, and sister of the revolutionaries

Fang Shengdong Fang Shengdong (; 1886–1911) was a late Qing dynasty revolutionary, He was killed during the Second Guangzhou Uprising The Second Guangzhou (Canton) Uprising, known in Chinese as the Yellow Flower Mound Uprising or the Guangzhou Xinhai Upri ...

and Fang Shengtao. From 1901 to 1911, she studied in

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, and became involved with the revolutionary republican movements among the Chinese students there. She became a member of the Tonghmenghui in 1905, and head of its assassination section in 1907. In 1908, she participated in a planned assassination of Prince regent Zai Feng. She was one of the ideologists who planned the Guangzhou Uprising on 27 April 1911. From 1912 to 1922, she studied in

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. Upon her return to China, she committed suicide through an overdose of

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. She stated her reason as her sorrow over the rampant corruption in China.

References

* Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Lau, A.D. Stefanowska:
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644–1911
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