Died 1923, China | ||
Fang Junying (1884-1923), was a Chinese revolutionary.
She was the niece of the progressive reformer Fang Jiashi, a follower of Weng Tonghe, and sister of the revolutionaries Fang Shengdong and Fang Shengtao. In 1901-1911, she studied in Japan, and became involved with the revolutionary republican movements among the Chinese students in Japan: she became a member of the i Tonghmenghu in 1905, and head of its assassination section in 1907. In 1908, she participated in a planned assassination of Prince regent Zai Feng. She was one of the ideologists behind the planning of the Guangzhou Uprising 27 April 1911.
In 1912-1922, she studied in France. Upon her return to China, she committed suicide through an overdose of morphine. She stated her reason as her sorrow of the rampant corruption in China.