Jiang Bai-li's Thought World during His Early Career

Jiang Bai-li's consciousness of nationalism and revolution came into being very early.When he propagandized western nationalism,his main purport was not to bestir the Hans to revolt Manchuria,but to awaken the whole nation to resist imperialist.However,while discriminating Liang Qi-chao and other constitutionalists' theoretical mistakes,he proposed to overthrow the government of Qing Dynasty by force,which reached the same goal with the revolutionaries.After the outbreak of the war between Japan and Russia,Jiang shifted his standpoint from advocacy of democratic and national revolution to appeal for the building of national defense.The multidimensional and colored world of Jiang's early thinking provides a typical case for us to understand the students abroad in Japan during the late Qing.