At the end of the Ching dynasty, with the failure of the 100 Days Reform, the reformist royalist protectors Kang Yu-wei and Liang Chi-chao, both Cantonese, fled abroad. They published newspapers and established schools for the overseas Chinese in all kinds of places, stirring up patriotic thinking. It was only then that the Overseas Chinese began to identify with their country and became enthusiastic about politics.
清末保皇黨康有為、梁啟超「戊戌政變」失敗，這兩位廣東人逃到海外，到處辦僑報、興學校，大力鼓吹國家思想，海外華人才開始認同國家，熱心政治。