Through China's Looking Glass

Yung Wing, my grandfather, and the seeds of China's never-ending pro-democracy movement

My grandfather Liu Chengyu, age 28, left, and Yung Wing, age 76

In 1900 my grandfather Liu Chengyu became one of China's first pro-democracy activists when he joined a student-organized plot to blow up an imperial armory near his home in Wuchang. The…