Huang Hsing

Born Oct. 25, 1874, in Ch’angsha; died Oct. 31, 1916, in Shanghai. Chinese bourgeois revolutionary.

Huang founded the revolutionary organization Hua-hsing Hui in 1904 and was its leader. In 1905 he helped establish the Chinese national revolutionary organization T’ung-meng Hui; apart from Sun Yat-sen he was the most influential figure in the organization.

Between 1907 and 1910, Huang organized a series of armed uprisings in the provinces of Kwangtung, Kiangsu, and Yunnan. He led the Canton Uprising in April 1911, and he was a principal leader of the Hsinhai Revolution of 1911–13. Between January and March 1912, Huang served as minister of war in the Nanking republican government. He was an influential figure in the Kuomintang, which was formed in 1912.

In the summer of 1913, Huang fought in the Second Revolution, but in July of that year he left the ranks of the rebels; he went first to Japan and then to the USA. Huang returned to China in 1916.