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

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in 1892. It was founded by Yeung Ku-wan, together with

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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

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s 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

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, Central, Hong Kong. In November 1894,

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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

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. Yeung Kui-wan and Sun became respectively President and Secretary of the Revive China Society. A memorial park (

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) 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.

Members

The Society had 16 members, the details of whom 14 are known:

Members

See also