Lin Xu

{{Short description|Chinese politician (1875–1898)}}

{{Family name hatnote|Lin|lang=Chinese}}

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| name = Lin Xu

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| native_name = {{nobold|林旭}}

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| birth_date = 1875

| birth_place = Houguan, Fujian (now Fuzhou)

| death_date = 28 September 1898

| death_place = Caishikou, Beijing

| death_cause = Beheading, Execution

| nationality = Qing Dynasty China

| native_name_lang = zh

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| occupation = Government official, reformer, scholar, writer

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| known_for = Advocacy of political reform

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| movement = Reformist faction, Late Qing Dynasty

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Lin Xu ({{zh|c=林旭}}; 1875{{cite book|author=Yang Tianshi|title=The End of Imperialism: A Concise History of the Xinhai Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SbSUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT68|date=1 August 2011|publisher=Yuelu Press|isbn=978-7-80761-636-8|pages=68–}} – 28 September 1898{{cite book|author=Jasper Becker|title=City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bYxlFQF1JccC&pg=PA97|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-530997-3|pages=97–}}), courtesy name Tungu ({{lang|zh|暾谷}}), was a Chinese politician, scholar, songwriter and poet who lived in the late Qing dynasty. He was also a student of Kang Youwei, a prominent official and one of the leaders of a reform movement in the late Qing dynasty.

Lin Xu was one of the "Six Gentlemen of Wuxu".{{cite web |url=http://dangshi.people.com.cn/n1/2017/0223/c85037-29103252.html|title=Lin Xu before and after the Wuxu Reform|author=|date=2017-02-23|work=People's Daily}} On September 28, 1898, he was executed at Caishikou Execution Grounds in Beijing via decapitation.{{cite book|author=Patrick Fuliang Shan|title=Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1JtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|date=14 November 2018|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-3781-1|pages=84–}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7YtAQAAIAAJ |title=Xinhua Digest |publisher=People's Publishing House |year=2004 |pages=72–}}