Beheaded leaders of the 1911 Revolution: Peng Chufan and Liu Fuji
Collection
Identifier
WS01-003
Copyright
© 2017 Joanna Dunn and Philippa Lamb
Notes
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).
Caption in album or on mount
Two of the original Revolutionists beheaded by Viceroy Jui Cheng.
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