Sha Gan

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Shā Gàn (1885 – July 10, 1913), also known as Baochen or by his nickname Angry, was a democratic revolutionary and anarchist in the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Biography[]

At the age of 12, he entered the No. 1 Higher Primary School in Tongzhou. At the age of 13, he cut off his queue and became determined to counter the Qing dynasty. After graduating from high school, he went to Japan to study and entered Chengcheng School. During his stay in Japan, he participated in the founding of the Revolutionary Alliance, and he became a member when the association was founded.

After returning to China in 1911, he worked as a reporter while preparing for the revolution. He was almost arrested by the Qing government, rescued by the revolutionary Zhao Sheng, and later went to Shanghai to continue his revolutionary work. In October of the same year, the Wuchang uprising broke out, and Shā Gàn and Chen Qimei organized a team to attack the Shanghai Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. After the Shanghai Uprising, he served as a staff member of the Dudu's Office.

After the establishment of the Republic of China, Shā Gàn joined the Socialist Party of China led by Jiang Kanghu as the general affairs officer of the headquarters. In October 1912, the Social Democratic Party held its second joint conference in Shanghai. At the meeting, the left-wing nationalists and anarchists within the party had a dispute over the party's future. The left-wing nationalists hoped that the party would become a legal reformist party that was active within the country, while the anarchists hoped that the party would revise its program to conform to true socialism. Jiang Kanghu adopted a neutral and mediating attitude and advocated that the party should be divided into two parts, the "Democratic Party" and the "Non-rule Party" under the common name of the "Chinese Socialist Party". It was also proposed to add the expressions "legal activities" and "party members may engage in political activities" in the "Chinese Socialist Party Regulations". In November of the same year, the "Chinese Socialist Party Regulations" were formulated and promulgated, which reiterated the eight party principles and reflecting Jiang Kanghu's propositions. The anarchist Sha Gan and others were dissatisfied with Jiang Kanghu's propositions, so they broke away from the Chinese Socialist Party and formed the .^[1] Afterwards, Sha Gan and Chen Qimei worked in the publishing industry in Shanghai and wrote a book accusing Yuan Shikai of being the "Emperor of Tu".

In 1913, the Second Revolution broke out, and Shā Gàn raised funds for the revolution near his hometown. Soon, he was hunted down in Nantong by forces supporting Yuan Shikai. He was 29 years old.

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Xu, Youchun (2007). 民国人物大辞典 増訂版 (in Chinese). Shijiazhuang: Hubei People's Press. ISBN 978-7-202-03014-1. OCLC 916827905.
• Xie, Bin; Dai, Jitao (2007). 民国政党史 (in Chinese). Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company. ISBN 978-7-101-05531-3. OCLC 182849012.

External links[]

• "「沙淦烈士紀念碑」" (in Chinese). Nantong Tourism（Xinxin Travel Network）.