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The Kuomintang continued to promote the concept of martyrdom, the souls of Party martyrs who died fighting for the Kuomintang and the revolution and the party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen were sent to heaven according to the Kuomintang party. Chiang Kai-shek believed that these martyrs witnessed events on
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played a role in the attack against Qing forces in the Xinhai Revolution. The martyrs in the Dare to Die Corps who died in battle wrote letters to family members before heading off to certain death. The Huanghuakang was built as a monument to the 72 martyrs. The martyrdom of the revolutionaries
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promoted the Dare to Die corps. Huang said, "We must die, so let us die bravely". During the revolution, suicide squads were formed by Chinese students going into battle, knowing that they would be killed fighting against overwhelming odds. The
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promoting nationalism was spread. A song written by Xue Wenbo at the Muslim Chengda school, which was controlled by the Kuomintang, called for martyrdom in battle for China against Japan. The Muslim General
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Christian missionaries and Chinese Christians were mostly accepted along with other religious persuasions but sometimes accused of disloyalty. Government officials
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for their refusal to renounce their faith, which the officials regarded as subversive. The largest number of martyrs were those killed by local groups in the
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remonstrated with his king but was driven out of the court by vicious rivals. Rather than rebel, he drowned himself in the river, leaving behind his poem,
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in China during the premodern period largely concerned loyalty to political principles and was developed in modern times by revolutionaries, such as the
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Coolies against the Communist takeover formed "Dare to Die Corps" to fight for their organizations, with their lives. During the
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sentenced him to either death by suicide or being castrated. He explained his choice of the second punishment in a famous
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warned of the danger of invasion but was ignored, then put to death on spurious charges.
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stated on how Chinese Muslims were willing to die to accomplish tasks assigned to them.
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himself was a member of a Dare to Die corps in the Xinhai revolution.
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Two of the earliest revolutionary martyrs in Chinese culture were
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Howard L. Boorman; Richard C. Howard; Joseph K. H. Cheng (1979).
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itself, many Chinese revolutionaries became martyrs in battle. "
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