Abstract: KANG You-wei and LIANG Qi-chao's understanding of parliament during the Reform Movement of 1898 was essentially different from the modern Western doctrine of parliament. The resource of their idea of parliament was Chinese Confucian classics and Chinese history. This shows that KANG and LIANG did not have a full understanding of the modern Western system of parliament, so that they compared it with Chinese classics in a random way due to their misunderstandings. Even if it is reasonable to claim that "the Reform Movement of 1898 learned from Western system and thought", we must say what had been learn is merely the appearance since KANG and LIANG did not master the essence of Western political system and thought.

Key words: KANG You-wei, LIANG Qi-chao, Reform Movement of 1898, parliament, Counselor(yilang), Institutional Bureau