Editing Sun Yat-sen (section)

=== From Furen Literary Society to Revive China Society ===
In 1891, Sun met revolutionary friends in Hong Kong including [[Yeung Ku-wan]] who was the leader and founder of the [[Furen Literary Society]].<ref name="Curthoys">Curthoys, Ann; Lake, Marilyn (2005). ''Connected worlds: history in transnational perspective''. ANU publishing.  {{ISBN|978-1920942441}}. p. 101.</ref> The group was spreading the idea of overthrowing the Qing. In 1894, Sun wrote an 8,000-character petition to Qing [[Viceroy of Zhili|Viceroy]] [[Li Hongzhang]] presenting his ideas for modernizing China.<ref name="Wei">Wei, Julie Lee.  Myers Ramon Hawley. Gillin, Donald G.  (1994). ''Prescriptions for saving China: selected writings of Sun Yat-sen''. Hoover press. {{ISBN|978-0817992811}}.</ref><ref name="gtong146">{{cite book |author=王恆偉 |year=2006 |script-title=zh:中國歷史講堂 |script-chapter=zh:#5 清 |trans-chapter=Chapter 5. Qing dynasty |publisher=中華書局 |isbn=9628885286 |page=146}}</ref><ref>[[#Bergère|Bergère]]: 39–40</ref> He traveled to [[Tianjin]] to personally present the petition to Li but was not granted an audience.<ref>[[#Bergère|Bergère]]: 40–41</ref> After that experience, Sun turned irrevocably toward revolution. He left China for Hawaii and founded the [[Revive China Society]], which was committed to revolutionizing China's prosperity. It was the first Chinese nationalist revolutionary society.<ref name="Yang 2023">{{cite book |last=Yang |first=Zhiyi |title=Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times |publisher=University of Michigan Press |publication-place=Ann Arbor, MI |date=2023 |isbn=978-0-472-07650-5 |doi=10.3998/mpub.12697845 |id={{OCLC|1404445939|1417484741}}|page=31|url=https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121550 }}</ref> Members were drawn mainly from Chinese expatriates, especially from the lower social classes. The same month in 1894, the Furen Literary Society was merged with the Hong Kong chapter of the Revive China Society.<ref name="Curthoys" /> Thereafter, Sun became the secretary of the newly merged Revive China Society, which Yeung Ku-wan headed as president.<ref name="yang-bio">(Chinese) Yang, Bayun; Yang, Xing'an (2010). ''Yeung Ku-wan&nbsp;– A Biography Written by a Family Member''. Bookoola. p. 17. {{ISBN|978-9881804167}}</ref> They disguised their activities in Hong Kong under the running of a business under the name "Kuen Hang Club"<ref>{{cite book|last=Faure|first=David|title=Society|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|date=1997|isbn=978-9622093935|url=https://archive.org/details/documentaryhisto00davi}}, founder [[Tse Tsan-tai]]'s account</ref>{{rp|90}} ({{lang|zh-hant|乾亨行}}).