Fang Junying
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Fang Junying (1884–1923) was a Chinese revolutionary.
She was the niece of the progressive reformer , a follower of Weng Tonghe, and sister of the revolutionaries Fang Shengdong and . From 1901 to 1911, she studied in Japan, and became involved with the revolutionary republican movements among the Chinese students there. She became a member of the in 1905, and head of its assassination section in 1907. In 1908, she participated in a planned assassination of Prince regent . She was one of the ideologists who planned the Guangzhou Uprising on 27 April 1911.
From 1912 to 1922, she studied in France. Upon her return to China, she committed suicide through an overdose of morphine. She stated her reason as her sorrow over the rampant corruption in China.
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- Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Clara Lau, A.D. Stefanowska: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 1: The Qing Period, 1644–1911
- 1884 births
- 1923 deaths
- 1923 suicides
- 19th-century Chinese people
- 19th-century Chinese women
- 20th-century Chinese people
- 20th-century Chinese women
- Chinese expatriates in Japan
- Chinese expatriates in France
- Drug-related suicides in China