Dr. Sun and a number of local Chinese businessmen founded the Yokohama Chinese Academy in 1897. It was called the Chinese / Western School at first, with the principle in mind of "Chinese learning as the essential substance and Western learning for utilitarian purposes."
一八九七年，國父在橫濱與僑商創立以「中學為體、西學為用」，命名為「中西學校」即現在的「中華學院」。