page_title: Furen Literary Society
hierarchical_section_title: Furen Literary Society
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 中環zh:百子里近鴨巴甸街與結志街之間
context_page_description: The Furen Literary Society, also known as the Chinese Patriotic Mutual Improvement Association, or the 'Furen Cultural Society Restoration Association', was founded in Colonial Hong Kong in 1892 to spread ideas of revolution against the Qing dynasty and establishing a republic in China.
  It was founded by Yeung Ku-wan, together with Tse Tsan-tai and others, with Yeung as their leader. The guiding principles of the society were: "Open up the people's minds" and "Ducit Amor Patriae". Other tenets were:
  To purify the character in the highest possible degree
  To prohibit indulgences in the vices of the world
  To set an example for future young Chinese
  To improve in all possible ways Chinese and foreign knowledge both in a civil and a military point of view
  To obtain a good knowledge of western science and learning: and
  To learn how to be and act as a patriot and how to wipe out the unjust wrong our country has suffered.
  The society met in Pak Tsz Lane, Central, Hong Kong, and released books and papers discussing the future of China and advocating the overthrow of the Qing dynasty government and establishment of a republic in China.
context_section_description: The Furen Literary Society, also known as the Chinese Patriotic Mutual Improvement Association, or the 'Furen Cultural Society Restoration Association (Foo Yan Man Ser Kwong Fook Hui)', was founded in Colonial Hong Kong in 1892 to spread ideas of revolution against the Qing dynasty and establishing a republic in China.
  It was founded by Yeung Ku-wan, together with Tse Tsan-tai and others, with Yeung as their leader. The guiding principles of the society were: "Open up the people's minds" (開通民智) and "Ducit Amor Patriae" (盡心愛國, "Love your country with all your heart"). Other tenets were:
  To purify the character in the highest possible degree
  To prohibit indulgences in the vices of the world
  To set an example for future young Chinese
  To improve in all possible ways Chinese and foreign knowledge both in a civil and a military point of view
  To obtain a good knowledge of western science and learning: and
  To learn how to be and act as a patriot and how to wipe out the unjust wrong our country has suffered.
  The society met in Pak Tsz Lane, Central, Hong Kong, and released books and papers discussing the future of China and advocating the overthrow of the Qing dynasty government and establishment of a republic in China.
  In November 1894, Sun Yat-sen founded the Revive China Society in Honolulu, Hawaii, and, in 1895, the Furen Literary Society was merged into the Hong Kong chapter of the Revive China Society, with help from Yau Lit. Yeung Kui-wan and Sun became respectively President and Secretary of the Revive China Society.
  A memorial park (Pak Tsz Lane Park) to the early revolutionists of the Furen Literary was opened in May, 2011 - just in time for the centenary anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, which realised the dreams of the members of the Furen Literary Society.
caption: Pak Tsz Lane, the original site of the Furen Literary Society, is now the 8th spot of the Dr Sun Yat-sen Historical Trail
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