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Lin Juemin
Fujian revolutionary educated in Japan who was captured and executed after the 1911 Guangzhou uprising, leaving a farewell letter to his wife written days before
A mountain camp at night, with a beacon fire burning on a wooden platform at the upper left, several white tents on the slope and a red cloth tied to a rope; a wooden palisade with a gate stands at the right beyond a timber bridge over a rough river, under a clouded moon.
Also known as Zi Yidong · Hao Doufei
Lin Juemin, courtesy name Yidong, came from Minxian in Fujian and studied at the provincial college in Fuzhou. In 1907 he went to Japan to study literature at Keio and joined the Revolutionary Alliance. In spring 1911 he returned to Fujian to rally supporters and then hurried to Guangzhou for the planned rising. On the night of 24 April, in Hong Kong, he wrote a letter to his wife Chen Yiying explaining why he was ready to die, along with a farewell to his father. When the uprising began on 27 April he followed Huang Xing into the Liangguang governor-general's office, was wounded and captured, and was executed after interrogation at the age of twenty-four by Chinese reckoning. He is buried at Huanghuagang in Guangzhou, and his letter to his wife has long been included in school literature textbooks.
Life and times
Dates 1887 CE–1911 CE