See here! The first stop is the Central School, Mr. Sun's alma mater.
At the age of twelve Mr. Sun left his home village Cuiheng, at Xiangshan in Guangdong, with his mother in 2 May 1878. Through Hong Kong, they headed to Honolulu of the United States, where his elder brother lived. It was the very first life-changing journey of Mr. Sun. When recalling his childhood, he remembered Hong Kong as the place where "I first saw the enthralling steamer and the vast sea, and so I started to admire the learning of the west, and wanted to know everything about the world." He would soon leave much of his revolutionary footprint in Hong Kong.
In 1883, Mr. Sun returned to the country and decided to continue his secondary education in Hong Kong, which should befit his earlier westernized training in Honolulu. The first school he attended was the Diocesan Home and Orphanage in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong Island. It followed the education system of British government school, but Mr. Sun enrolled in it for only one month. In April the next year he entered the Government Central School and stayed there for two years. The Central School was founded in 1862, first proposed by James Legge of the London Missionary Society. While students enrolled in English and were taught western history, science, mathematics, art, geography and politics, Chinese was also one of the curricula of the School. It had eight forms, comprising primary, junior high and high schools, and although most students were Chinese and Eurasian, it received students of other nationalities from around the world. It was the mission of the School to produce men of letters proficient in both Chinese and English, in addition to modern secular knowledge. The Central School was the first government school in Hong Kong and, subsidized by the government, it offered to the society yet another choice of education other than the traditional private schooling or the western religious schooling. Its establishment, therefore, was a milestone of Hong Kong's education. During his stay, Mr. Sun got in touch not only with western education and religion but also all the affairs of state — like the incompetence of the Qing court in the Sino-French War and the strike of Hong Kong workers and merchants who started boycotting France in response — through the liberal societal circumstance and the media of Hong Kong. It was through all these that the young Mr. Sun experienced the distinction of the westernized modern society.
