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Kang Tongbi or Kang Tung Pih (; 1887–1969) was the daughter of Kang Youwei, a Chinese reformer and political figure of the late Qing dynasty and early Republican era. ==Early life== She was born in 1887 to Kang Youwei's first wife, Zhang Yunchu (as a scholar from a relatively wealthy family in traditional China, Kang kept several wives and concubines). She was Zhang Yunchu's second daughter. Official documents in the US indicate that her birth was on February 5, 1888, using the Gregorian calendar. Kang Tongbi's father, along with his disciple Liang Qichao, was one of the major intellectual figures behind the launching of China's political reform by the Guangxu Emperor in 1898, but political infighting at the Qing court caused the reform movement to be summarily aborted within 103 days of its start, and a death warrant to be issued against Kang Youwei. He hastily left the country with his family and would spend the next 14 years travelling the world. As a result, much of Kang Tongbi's youth was spent abroad. Her father, a noted calligrapher, taught her traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. A few of Tongbi's own paintings survive. In 1903, while the Kangs were in Japan, teen-aged Tongbi met Luo Chang, a young staffer at the Chinese embassy in Tokyo. The two were married soon thereafter. There is no indication of the match having been arranged by their respective families, as was usually the case among upper-class Chinese at the time. Tongbi followed her husband when the latter was assigned to the Chinese consulate in Denmark, and later moved on to the United States where her father was already residing. In 1907, Tongbi became the first Asian student ever to be enrolled in courses at Barnard College. She earned an associates degree in Journalism in 1909. Also in 1909 at age twenty-one, she gave birth to her daughter, Luo Yifeng. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kang Tongbi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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