On his return from Hawaii, Sun quickly moved on from his ancestral village, making the short trip to Hong Kong to study Western medicine. In 1892 Sun became one of the first Chinese students to graduate from the Hong Kong College of Medicine. Sun began practicing as a Western-trained surgeon in the neighboring Portuguese colony… Read more »
Sun Yat-sen was born in 1866 in Cuiheng, a village in the very southern tip of Guangdong province, near the present day city of Zhuhai. Sun’s family was too poor to put their children through traditional Confucian education. Instead, Sun went to live with his older brother, Sun Mei, in Honolulu in 1882. There he… Read more »
Liang Qichao is born on February 23, 1873 in a village of farmers and fishermen in Xinhui, a southern Chinese county in Guangdong province. Liang came from a relatively wealthy family of local gentry. Given a traditional Confucian schooling, Liang quickly emerged as a prodigy, passing the local examinations at 11 and the provincial examinations… Read more »