To understand Xi Jinping’s China, we must look back to Liang Qichao — the ‘godfather of Chinese nationalism’

Xi Jinping took centre stage this week to celebrate 100 years of the Communist Party of China, but there is another figure whose shadow looms over the nation.

Liang Qichao may not be as familiar to most of us as Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping or Xi himself, but Liang has been called the “godfather of…