Pui Ching Middle School (Hong Kong)
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至善至正
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| 20 Pui Ching Road Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
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| Type | Aided, secondary, co-educational. |
| Established | 1889 |
| School district | Kowloon City |
| Head teacher | Yip Chee-Tim 葉賜添 (2003-now) |
| Grades | 1-7 |
| Enrollment | 1500 |
| Website | http://www.puiching.edu.hk http://student.puiching.edu.hk |
Pui Ching Middle School (Chinese: 香港培正中學) is a Baptist secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Founded in 1889, it currently has sister schools in Macau and Guangzhou.
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[edit] History
The Hong Kong branch was established in 1933 in Ho Man Tin. Initially, only primary school education was offered; a junior high school division using Chinese as medium of instruction was established in 1938, a senior high division was established in 1940. The school was suspended during Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Students and staff went to Macau and mainland China. In 1945, the school move back to a temporary site in Kowloon Tong and in 1946, the school move back to Ho Man Tin. In 1950, the school was renamed from a Hong Kong branch of the Canton school to the present name. In 1952, a new extension on the land donated by Hong Kong Government was built and complete in September, 1953. The premises is located at Pui Ching Road which was named after the school.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Daniel Chee Tsui, 崔琦, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 1998.
- Shing-Tung Yau, 丘成桐, mathematician, awarded the Fields Medal in 1982. Calabi-Yau manifold was named after him. Awarded Wolf Price in Mathematics in 2010.
- Alfred Y. Cho, 卓以和, father of molecular beam epitaxy.
- Yum-Tong Siu, 蕭蔭堂, mathematician, William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University.
- Shiu-Yuen Cheng, 鄭紹遠, Dean of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
- Sun Kwok, 郭新, founder of Interactive Wind Model in Planetary Nebula, Dean of Science of University of Hong Kong
- Chia-Wei Woo, 吳家瑋, founding President of the The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- King-Fai Chung 鍾景輝 first Dean, the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts. 獲香港特區政府頒發紫荊星章
- Daniel Tse Chi Wai, 謝志偉, former President of Hong Kong Baptist University
- Ng Ching-fai, 吳清渾, former President of Hong Kong Baptist University
- Wong Jing, 王晶, film director, producer and screenwriter in Hong Kong
- Gigi Lai, 黎姿, Hong Kong actress
- Sammul Chan, 陳鍵鋒 (陳恩耀), Hong Kong actor
- Cindy Au, 歐倩怡, Hong Kong actress
- Wong Yuk Long, 黃玉郎, Hong Kong based manhua artist, publisher and actor
- Wu Wai Hong 胡謂康(香港小虎隊成員)
- Onki Wong 黃安琪, sports reporter in Hong Kong
- Joseph King-Tak Lee, M.D., Chairman Emeritus and Dr. Ernest H. Wood Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Depart. of Radiology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Author of Computed Body Tomography with MRI Correlation.
- Cheng King Leung 鄭景亮, International Beach Volleyball Coach, FIVB and the Head Coach of Hong Kong Beach Volleyball Team
- Chung-Kong Chow 周松崗, former CEO of Hong Kong MTR
- Edmond Ko 高彥鳴，former Vice Provost at Carnegie Mellon University and Vice Provost at City University of Hong Kong
- Simon Wong 黃兆永 founding President of Applied Science & Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) in Hong Kong, now Vice Chairman, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- Henry Tong 唐英年 former Chief Secretary of the Hong Kong SAR Government
- Ian Huang 黃源源, former Vice President of Local Area Network Engineering, Hughes Network Systems, former Visiting Chief Architect, Singapore National Science & Technology Board, co-inventor of SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
- Danny Ma 馬長貴, three times Hong Kong Table Tennis Champion in the 70s.
- David Lam, 林傑屏, founder and former Chairman & CEO, Lam Research Corporation in Silicon Valley. He introduced the industry's first fully automated plasma etching system for semiconductor manufacturing
- Ka Wing Leung 梁家榮, former Senior Vice President for News & Public Affairs, Asia TV in Hong Kong.
- M.K. Koo 顧明均 Chairman & CFO, Namtai Electronics & Electrical Products. Donated HK$100M to the Hong Kong Baptist University, and donated another HK$100M to Fresh Fish Traders' School in Kowloon
- Rogerio Sou Fung Lam 林秀峰，former Chairman and CEO, Commercial TV 佳藝電視 in Hong Kong
- Cecilia Wong, 黄杏秀，Hong Kong movie and TV actress
- Regina Tsang, 曾慶瑜，Miss Hong Kong Second Runner-up 1978
- Maria Chung, 鍾慧冰，Miss Hong Kong Second Runner-up 1979
- Brian H.T. Leung 梁孔德 Chairman, Hong Kong Football Association
[edit] See also
- Pui Ching Middle School
- Education in Hong Kong
- List of schools in Hong Kong
- Pui Ching Invitational Mathematics Competition
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