Editing Sun Yat-sen (section)

=== Education ===
[[File:Sun Yat Sen's family 1901.png|left|thumb|Sun Yat-sen (back row, fourth from right) and his family|alt=Sun Yat-sen with his family in 1901]]
During his stay in Honolulu, Sun began his education at the age of 10,<ref name="singtao1" /> attending secondary school in Hawaii.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gonschor |first=Lorenz |date=2 January 2017 |title=Revisiting the Hawaiian Influence on the Political Thought of Sun Yat-sen |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2017.1319128 |journal=The Journal of Pacific History |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=52–67 |doi=10.1080/00223344.2017.1319128 |issn=0022-3344 |s2cid=157738017}}</ref> In 1878, after receiving a few years of local schooling, a 13-year-old Sun went to live with his elder brother [[Sun Mei]],<ref name="singtao1" /> who would later make major contributions to overthrowing the [[Qing dynasty]], and who financed Sun's attendance of the [[ʻIolani School]].<ref name="Maui" /><ref name="KHON2SunMei" /><ref name="MauiSunPark" /><ref name="MauiCountySunPark" /> There, he studied English, [[British history]], mathematics, science, and Christianity.<ref name="singtao1" /> Sun was initially unable to speak English, but quickly acquired it, received a prize for academic achievement from King [[Kalākaua]], and graduated in 1882.<ref name="DrSenIolaniSchool">{{Cite web |title=Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (class of 1882) |url=http://www.iolani.org/wn_aboutiolani_100305_cc.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720185610/http://www.iolani.org/wn_aboutiolani_100305_cc.htm |archive-date=20 July 2011 |website=[[ʻIolani School]]}}</ref> He then attended [[Oahu College]] (now known as [[Punahou School]]) for one semester.<ref name="singtao1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Brannon |first=John |date=16 August 2007 |title=Chinatown park, statue honor Sun Yat-sen |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Aug/16/ln/hawaii708160313.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004215858/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Aug/16/ln/hawaii708160313.html |archive-date=4 October 2012 |access-date=17 August 2007 |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |quote=Sun graduated from Iolani School in 1882, then attended Oahu College—now known as Punahou School—for one semester.}}</ref> By 1883, Sun's interest in Christianity had become deeply worrisome for his brother—who, seeing his conversion as inevitable, sent Sun back to China.<ref name="singtao1" />

Upon returning to China, a 17-year-old Sun met with his childhood friend Lu Haodong at the Beiji Temple ({{lang|zh|北極殿}}) in Cuiheng,<ref name="singtao1" /> where villagers engaged in traditional [[folk healing]] and worshipped an [[effigy]] of the [[Ziwei Emperor|North Star God]]. Feeling contemptuous of these practices,<ref name="singtao1" /> Sun and Lu incurred the wrath of their fellow villagers by breaking the wooden idol; as a result, Sun's parents felt compelled to dispatch him to Hong Kong.<ref name="singtao1" /><ref name="big5">{{Cite web |script-title=zh:基督教與近代中國革命起源:以孫中山為例 |url=http://big5.chinanews.com:89/hb/2011/04-02/2950599.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028210411/http://big5.chinanews.com:89/hb/2011/04-02/2950599.shtml |archive-date=28 October 2011 |access-date=26 September 2011 |publisher=Big5.chinanews.com:89}}</ref> In November 1883, Sun began attending the Diocesan Home and Orphanage on [[Eastern Street (Hong Kong)|Eastern Street]] (now the [[Diocesan Boys' School]]),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Central and Western Heritage Trail |url=https://www.amo.gov.hk/en/trails_west1.php?tid=18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185852/https://www.amo.gov.hk/en/trails_west1.php?tid=18 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |access-date=6 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=17 November 2017 |title=The Diocesan Home and Orphanage |url=https://www.sunyatsenhistoricaltrail.hk/en/spots2.html |access-date=6 July 2021 |website=Sun Yat-sen Historic Trail}}</ref> and from 15 April 1884 he attended The Government Central School on [[Gough Street]] (now [[Queen's College, Hong Kong|Queen's College]]), until graduating in 1886.<ref>{{Cite web |script-title=zh:中山史蹟徑一日遊 |url=http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/yfoh/b5/sun_yat_sen.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111102031359/http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/ce/Museum/Monument/yfoh/b5/sun_yat_sen.php |archive-date=2 November 2011 |access-date=26 September 2011 |publisher=Lcsd.gov.hk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=14 January 2018 |title=The Government Central School |url=https://www.sunyatsenhistoricaltrail.hk/en/spots5.html |access-date=6 July 2021 |website=Sun Yat-sen Historic Trail}}</ref>

In 1886, Sun studied medicine at the [[Guangzhou Boji Hospital]] under the Christian missionary [[John Glasgow Kerr]].<ref name="singtao1" /> According to his book "Kidnapped in London", in 1887 Sun heard of the opening of the [[Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese]] (the forerunner of the [[University of Hong Kong]]).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Sun |first=Yat-sen |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kidnapped_in_London/Chapter_1 |title=Kidnapped in London |chapter=The Imbroglio}}</ref> He immediately sought to attend, and went on to obtain a license to practice medicine from the institution in 1892;<ref name="singtao1" /><ref name="book2006" /> out of a class of twelve students, Sun was one of two who graduated.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Growing with Hong Kong: the University and its graduates: the first 90 years |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-962-209-613-4}}</ref><ref name="singtao2">''[[Singtao]] Daily''. 28 February 2011. 特別策劃 section A10. "Sun Yat-sen Xinhai revolution 100th anniversary edition".</ref><ref name="scmp1999">''South China Morning Post.  "Birth of Sun heralds dawn of revolutionary era for China". 11 November 1999.</ref>