Next we'll go to Pak Tsz Lane, the birthplace of "Furen Literary Society", at Gage Street, Central. Furen Literary Society was reputedly the first anti-Qing association. It was founded in 1892 at the second floor of No.1 Pak Tsz Lane by around ten Chinese elites, including Yeung Kui-wan, Tse Tsan-tai, Wong Wing-seung and Yau Lit, most of them civil servants and employees of western firms and schools. Yeung Kui-wan, who was older in age, was the president. At the beginning this small community sought to enlighten the public through book reading sessions and seminars, focusing on issues like education, morality, patriotism and academic exchange. It argued for reforms with the motto "Ducit Amor Patriae" ("love your country with all your heart"). Later, however, the incompetence and decadence of the Qing court turned it into a revolutionary body.
People used to take it as a "westernized" organization as all the members were educated in western schools. The Hong Kong police, moreover, kept a keen eye on them lest they caused any commotions.
In 1895, one year after the Revive China Society was formed in Honolulu, Mr. Sun came back to set up a headquarters in Hong Kong and the Furen Literary Society was incorporated into it. Yeung Kui-wan was made the president while Mr. Sun acted as the secretary. "Brother Kui", as Mr. Sun called him so, was thought of as the leader of revolutionaries at that time.