Liu Fuji

Also known as Zi Yaocheng · Wu Lingren

Liu Fuji, courtesy name Yaocheng, came from Wuling in Hunan; he took part in the work of the Huaxing Society and later joined the Revolutionary Alliance. In 1909 he and Jiang Yiwu enlisted in the Hubei New Army to recruit soldiers, and when the Literary Society was founded in January 1911 he became head of its council, in charge of propaganda and contacts, and negotiated cooperation with the Common Advancement Society. On the rising's general staff he was one of the officers preparing military plans and helped draft them. After the Hankou base was exposed on 9 October he urged an immediate rising at the Xiaochaojie headquarters in Wuchang; when police burst in his bomb failed to explode, and he was captured with Peng Chufan and others. At dawn on 10 October he, Peng and Yang Hongsheng were beheaded outside the governor-general's office, aged twenty-six; the Wuchang rising broke out that evening. The three are remembered together, and a Wuhan street, Peng Liu Yang Road, bears their names.