Clementi Secondary School
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30 Fortress Hill Road North Point, Hong Kong 22°17′15″N 114°11′41″E / 22.2874°N 114.1947°E | |
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| Type | Public (Chinese: 官立) |
| Motto | Letters, ethics, the devotion of soul, and truthfulness. |
| Established | 1 March 1926 |
Principal | Mrs. Fung Lai Miu-yee |
| Enrollment | Approx. 1,000 students |
| Medium of instruction | Chinese |
| Campus Size | 2.74 acre |
| School Magazine | The Voice (鐸聲) |
| Website | clementi.edu.hk |
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| Traditional Chinese | 金文泰中學 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 金文泰中学 | ||||||||||
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Clementi Secondary School (Chinese: 金文泰中學) is a secondary institution in Fortress Hill, North Point, Hong Kong. Founded by the 17th British governor of Hong Kong, Sir Cecil Clementi, the school was the first to use Chinese as the primary medium of instruction in Hong Kong. Besides the strong emphasis on classical Chinese, the school was also instructed, since its founding, to provide a well-rounded English education to its pupils. Students and Alumni of the school are commonly known as "Clementians".
History
[edit]Hong Kong governor Cecil Clementi had a profound interest in the Chinese language and decided to establish a school using Chinese as the main medium of instruction. In 1926, Government Vernacular Middle School (官立漢文中學) was founded.[1] Government Vernacular Middle School was the first government school to use Chinese as the principal language of instruction.[2] Li King Hong, the then-Chinese language inspector of schools, was appointed as the first principal of the school.
During World War II, the school suspended its operations under the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. After the war, the school was renamed Government Vernacular Senior Middle School (官立漢文高級中學). It was renamed again in 1951 to Clementi Middle School (金文泰中學)[2] and in 1988 to Clementi Secondary School, after the governor.
The school has been relocated several times:
- 1926–1927 26–28 Hospital Road (now site of Lok Sin Tong Leung Kau Kui College)
- 1927–1941 Pok Fu Lam Road
- 1945–1946 Bridge Street (now Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong Bridge Centre)
- 1946–1948 Wood Road (formerly Government Trade School Building c. 1937)
- 1948–1961 28 Kennedy Road
It has been at the current site of 30 Fortress Hill Road since September 23, 1961.
The school principal is currently Mrs. Fung Lai Miu-yee, who succeeded Ms. Li Sui-wah in 2013.
Notable alumni
[edit]Politicians, government officials, and legislators
[edit]- Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-fan, Former Senior Chinese Unofficial Member in Urban Council, Executive Council and Legislative Council.[3]
- Tsang Yam Pui, Former Commissioner of Hong Kong Police Force.[4]
- Lee Ming-kwai, Former Commissioner of Hong Kong Police Force.[5]
- Leung Kwok-hung, Politician, Member of Hong Kong Legislative Council, Chairman of the League of Social Democrats.[6]
- Eddie Ng Hak-kim, Secretary for Education of the Hong Kong Government, Member of the Executive Council, Former Chairman of Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA)[7]
Academics
[edit]- Prof. Daniel Chee Tsui, physicist, a graduate of the university preparatory class of Clementi. Nobel Physics Prize Laureate for his contributions to the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall Effect. [8]
- Prof. Sau Lan Wu, physicist. Enrico Fermi and Vilas Professor of Physics at University of Wisconsin-Madison and winner of 1995 High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the European Physical Society for "the first evidence of three-jet events in E+E-collisions at PETRA"[9]
Business
[edit]- Peggy Cherng, Chinese-American billionaire businesswoman and electrical engineer [10]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Sir Cecil Clementi and family | History, Monuments and Memorials of Holy Trinity, Penn Street". 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
Clementi championed Chinese education in Hong Kong, where the Clementi Secondary School, founded in 1926, is named after him
- 1 2 Shaoyang, Lin (February 2018). "Hong Kong in the Midst of Colonialism, Collaborative and Critical Nationalism from 1925 to 1930: The Perspective of Lu Xun and the Confucius Revering Movement". China Report. 54 (1): 44. doi:10.1177/0009445517744409. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
... establish the Government Vernacular School. It was later renamed as the Clementi Secondary School in 1951 and is also known by its Chinese name (Hanwen zhongxue), the first government secondary school in Hong Kong that used Chinese as a medium of instruction and that offered a specialisation in literary Chinese.
- ↑ Lau, Herbert K. (23 February 2015). "Sir Kenneth Fung Ping-Fan: A Prominent Rotarian of the Rotary Centennial" (PDF). Rotary in China. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "Special guests mark school's 75th year". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "Lee Ming-kwai". Clementi Secondary School Alumni Association (in Chinese). 15 October 2025. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "Public housing boy sets out on the road to running for Chief Executive; Long Hair owes two women in his life". Hong Kong Economic Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "Eddie Ng visits alma mater Clementi Secondary School". Yahoo News Hong Kong (in Chinese). 6 November 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ Hui Ho, ed. (18 February 2021). "At 12, leaving rural Henan alone for Hong Kong: Daniel C. Tsui's road to the Nobel Prize". Our China Story (in Chinese). Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "Hong Kong-born Chinese-American high-energy particle physicist Sau Lan Wu has a minor planet named after her". Hong Kong Astronomical Society (in Chinese). May 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "How Did I Get Here?: Peggy Cherng". Bloomberg Businessweek. September 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
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