Beheaded leaders of the 1911 Revolution: Peng Chufan and Liu Fuji

University of Bristol – Historical Photographs of China reference number: WS01-003. Left: Liu Fiji / Lui Fu-chi (1883-1911).  Right: Peng Chufan / Peng Chu-fan (1884-1911).  These men were executed on 10th October.  Along with another executed leader, Yang Hongsheng / Yang Hung-sheng (1886-1911), they were honoured by the Republican government as the 'Three Pioneering Martyrs of the Revolution'. See The Birth of a Republic - Francis Stafford’s Photographs of China’s 1911 Revolution and Beyond by Hanchao Lu (University of Washington Press, 2010), pages 44 and 45. See WS01-001 (which is a photograph of Yang Hongsheng).