Xu Xilin | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 徐錫麟 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 徐锡麟 | ||||||
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Xu Xilin (1873 - 7 July 1907), was a Chinese revolutionary born in Dongpu, Shanyin, Shaoxing, Zhejiang during the Qing dynasty.
Xu was sent to Japan in 1903 for study where he joined other Zhejiang students in rescuing Zhang Taiyan, who was arrested for spreading Anti Qing views. Xu set up a publishing house and a public school called Yuejun in Shaoxing with Zong Nengsu and Wang Ziyu.
Xu was recommended into the China restoration Society, Guangfuhui in 1904 by Cai Yuanpei and Tao Chengzhang in Shanghai. Xu entered the imperial exams and he met Qiu Jin. He introduced her into the Guangfuhui.
Fan Ainong was a student of Xu.[1][2]
Xu refused to join Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary league, the Tongmenghui, when his Guangfuhui organization was merged into it.[3]
In 1906, Xu purchased an official rank and was placed in charge of police HQ of Anqing in Anhui province.[4]
During his interrogation, Xu said he had murdered En Ming just because he was a Manchu, and he had a hit list of Manchu officials he was prepared to assassinate, admitting that he hated Manchus in general.[5] He was executed the next day by a firing squad, and Qiu Jin was beheaded for her association with the plot.[6][7]
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