Sacred Heart High School, Balik Pulau (6 March 2004)
Sacred Heart High School (GPS: 5.3529, 100.23663), also known today as Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan Sacred Heart, is a Chinese secondary school in Balik Pulau, Penang. It was established by the nuns of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus. Classes began in the 1930's with two teachers and a hundred pupils. Lessons were conducted in Mandarin for children of Hakka farmers.
The Hakka farmers of Balik Pulau were descendents of refugees of the failed Taiping Rebellion, a 19th century Chinese version of the Khmer Rouge whose leader practised a self-styled form of Christianity and ruled with an iron fist through fear and brutality. It gripped southern China from 1850 to 1864 but was eventually wiped out by the Qing Imperial Army.
Sacred Heart High School (20 December 2008)
The Hakkas that were involved or affected in the Taiping Rebellion fled southern China to make a new life in the hills of Balik Pulau. They they began a new life and at the same time embraced a new religion, Roman Catholicism, through the effort of Belgian missionaries.
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