Qing censor from Shanxi who backed the Hundred Days' Reform of 1898. When Empress Dowager Cixi ended it, he was beheaded in Beijing with 谭嗣同 and four others, the 戊戌六君子.
Yang Shenxiu was one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs of the Wuxu Reform.
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Born 杨毓秀, he took the name 深秀 in 1874. After Cixi's coup he did not keep quiet: he sent up a memorial asking why the 光绪 Emperor had been set aside and urging her to hand power back, and was arrested days later.
