Today it is a beautiful verdant zone, but, originally, the site was the incubator of the revolutionary ideas that shaped China as we know it today. In a building that once stood behind 52 Gage Street, the Furen Literary Society, also known as the Chinese Patriotic Mutual Improvement Association, used to meet. Their mission was to modernize China, then ruled by the oppressive Qing dynasty. Here, revolutionaries would regularly meet to plan the 1911 Xinhai Revolution and although one of the leaders of the association, Yeung Ku-wan, would be assassinated by Qing agents, the Revolution, eventually, resulted in the abdication of the last emperor and the establishment of the first modern Chinese state. Unlike other public locations in Hong Kong, most of the signage is in Chinese only, since this is a dignified and solemn place associated with the movement and the ideas that would shape modern China.