Foreign bookstores/bookstalls selling foreign magazines in 1928 Shanghai

1. Commercial Press, 453 Honan Road; Hongkew Branch, 22 Szechuen Road
2. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 12 Nanking Road; 217 to 218 Bubbling Well Road
3. Chinese American Publishing Co., 25 Nanking Road
4. Chow Tsze Kong Bookstore, 159 Szechuen Road
5. British & Oriental Book Store, 231 A. Szechuen Road.
6. Ziang Kee Book Store, 209 A. Szechuen Road
7. Palace Bookstall, 19 The Bund
8. Astor House Bookstall, 7 Whangpoo Road
9. H. Lee & Company, 574 Nanking Road
10. Oriental Bookstall (Sincere & Co.), 141 Nanking Road
11. The Magazine Shop, 601Avenue Joffre
12. Ming Chong Bookstore, 469 Avenue Joffre
13. Union Bookstore, 657 Bubbling Well Road
14. Y. Y. Liu Bookstore, 6 Carter Road
15. The Mutual Publishing Company, 583 N. Szechuen Road
16. The Mission Book Company, 13 N. Szechuen Road
17. Brewer & Co., Ltd., 31 Nanking Road
18. Evans & Sons, Ltd., 17 Kiukiang Road
19. Echo Bookstore, 431 Jukiang Road, Chapei
20. Pao Kwong Bookstore, 54 Chinese City Temple
21. The Central Bookstore, 880 West Gats, Nantao
22. Chung Hwa Book Company, Foochow Road, Corner of Honan Road
23. Hotel Plaza, 36 Rue Montauban
24. Virginia Cowper, 10 Nanking Road

Source: The China Weekly Review, Nov 17, 1928, p. 423.

NO DOGS ALLOWED in Hong Kong

 "NO DOGS ALLOWED."

Special Notices Now Warn Kowloon Residents.

BOUNDARIES DEFINED.

    Special signs have now been erected marking the boundary between the New Territories and New Kowloon, in order to remove any cause for misunderstanding with regars to the bringing of dogs into the Colony from the New Territories.

    This was revealed at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday by Divisional Inspector Shaftain, of Shamshuipo.

    The fact was disclosed when a man named Chau Cheung, who was arrested in Cheungshawan Road yesterday, was charged before Mr. Lee with bringing a dog into the Colony without certificate from the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, and with ill-treating the animal.

    Inspector Shaftain told the Court that during the last few days, the Government had erected stones to mark the boundary between the New Territories and New Kowloon. These stones have been erected in Castle Peak Road a few yards past the Five-Mile Stone, and in Taipo Road just beyond the Kowloon Waterworks Police Station. Boards had been put up on each side of the stones with the words "New Territories" and "New Kowloon."

    Dealing with the case itself, Inspector Shaftain said defendant was arrested in Cheungshawan Road and the dog was found tied up in s sack. It was obviously in great discomfort and could not breathe properly.

    A fine of $15 was imposed on the first charge and $5 on the second.

Source: South China Morning Post. May 19, 1934, p. 9.

Book History (vol. 13, 2010)

notes 10 years ago...

Book History, Vol. 13, 2010. Papers interest me.

Charlotte Eubanks's "Circumambulatory Reading: Revolving Sutra Libraries and Buddhist Scrolls," pp. 1-24. Eubanks explores technologies developed in East Asia for the purpose of reading Mahayana Buddhist sutras with reference to the cultural and technological trends in China and in particular their adaptation in medieval Japan.

Spencer D. C. Keralis's "Pictures of Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and Her Readers," pp. 25-57. Keralis examines how several illustrated editions of the novel published between 1808 and 1905 engaged their readers and contributed to making Charlotte Temple one of the greatest steady-sellers in nineteenth-century America.

Living on the Margin: George Bentley and the Economics of the Three-Volume Novel, 1865–70Troy J. Bassettpp. 58-79.

Re-Authorship: Authoring, Editing, and Coauthoring the Transatlantic Publications of Charlotte M. Yonge’s Aunt Charlotte’s Stories of Bible HistoryLeslee Thorne-Murphypp. 80-103.

A Victorian Amazon.com: Edward Petherick and His Colonial Booksellers’ AgencyAlison Rukavinapp. 104-121.

Reading Beyond the Lines: Young Readers and Wartime Japanese LiteratureSari Kawanapp. 154-184.

Cold Warriors of the Book: American Book Programs in the 1950sGreg Barnhiselpp. 185-217. Books are weapons in the war of ideas. The US made books available to foreign audiences in multiple ways: at American "Information Center" libraries (the Library and Information Center Service), through a market-based export initiative called the Informational Media Guaranty (IMG) program, through donations of textbooks and scientific publications to foreign schools and aid programs, and through a government-directed project to translate, publish, and sell American books - with their origins disguised - in foreign markets (the Books in Translation program).

By far the greatest number and variety of anti-Communist volumes were produced and translated for and distributed in Chinese markets. An entire series was produced specifically for Chinese readers entitled How the Chinese Communists Treat ... (中共問題問答叢書－－中共怎樣對待......) had titles on religion, merchants and industrialists, overseas Chinese, farmers, students etc.

The over 200-title Chinese list (for distribution in two main markets, Hong Kong and "Formosa," although few Chinese titles were distributed in Singapore and one in the Philippines) is extremely thin on literature: from 1953 to 1956 only seven books that might be classed as serious American literature were distributed in Chinese through the State Department or United States Information Agency (USIA).

This essay reminds of the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, who worked as a translator for the United States Information Service in Hong Kong for three years (1952-55) during which she translated the works of Ernest Hemingway, Margery Lawrence, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Washington Irving, and was commissioned by the same agent to write two anti-Communist propaganda novels The Rice Sprout Song (1954) and Naked Earth (1956). Over the course of the 1950s, the Books in Translation program (an its subsidiary, the Low-Priced Book Program) distributed almost fifty million copies of American titles around the world.

Leon Jackson, "The Talking Book and the Talking Book Historian: African American Cultures of Print—The State of the Discipline," pp. 251-308.

"The Production of Three-Volume Novels, 1863-1897." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 102, No. 1 (2008): 61-75.

"T. Fisher Unwin's Pseudonym Library: Literary Marketing and Authorial Identity." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Vol. 47, No. 2 (2004): 143-60.

"Booksellers and Bestsellers: British Book Sales as Documented by The Bookman, 1891-1906." Book History, Vol. 4 (2001): 205-36.

"W. Somerset Maugham: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1969-1997." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 41.2 (1998): 133-84.

Shanghai parks written by Louise B. Wilson of North-China Herald

1. THE PARKS OF SHANGHAI: The Bund Gardens a Home of History, 5 June 1926: 444.
2. THE PARKS OF SHANGHAI: II-- Wayside Park and Its Dutch Gardens: An Oasis of Cleanliness in a Murky Neighbourhood: Amah' and the Lily;, 12 June 1926: 488.
3. THE PARKS OF SHANGHAI: III-- Quinsan Square, Hunting Ground of the Past But Hunt ing Now Only in Youthful Fancy: The Age of Make-Believe, 19 June 1926: 535.
4. THE PARKS OF SHANGHAI: IV-- Jessfield the True Beauty Spot: Nature's Kind Yielding to the Hand of Man: Memories of Unkaza: The Alpine Garden, 26 June 1926: 588.
5. THE PARKS OF SHANGHAI: V-- Hongkew for Use and Beauty: Some History: Laying-out in 1903 and Progress Since: Daintiness and Delight but No Swank: The Recreational Side, 3 July 1926: 21.
6. THE PARKS OF SHANGHAI: VI.-- Koukaza, a Piece of France Translated to Far Cathay: Beauty and Patriotism: Freedom from Besetting Worries of Self-Consciousness: Appearances of Age, 10 July 1926: 69.
7. THE PARKS OF SHANGHAI: VII.--The Story of the Public Recreation Ground and Its Importance in the Life of Shanghai, with Some Account of What Went Before, 17 July 1926: 114.
8. THE PARKS OF SHANGHAI: VIII. Nanyang and Studley Parks: Parva Sed Apta: Unique Contributions: The Gentle Persuasion of Shroffs: Admirable Outlay of Trees and Floral Specimens, 24 July 1926: 164.

Morrison Education Society's Library in Macao

Library of the Morrison Education Society.

The members of the Morrison Education Society, and the public in general are respectfully informed, that the Library of the Society continues open to the use of those who desire to borrow books from it, whether they be permanent members of the institution, or but temporary contributors to it; the contribution required from the latter being $10 yearly, or $5 for six months or any shorter period. Catalogues may be had from the Revd. S. R. Brown, Tutor of the Society's School, who will also forward such books as may be required any time (Sundays excepted) between thehours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., at the Society's house, near to St. Paul's Church, Macao.

J. Robt. Morrison, Recording Secretary and Librarian

Macao, 1st February, 1841

Best books on China competition in 1917

The Best Books on China and the Chinese

On June 16, 1917, the Review announced a competition for a list of Best Books on China for the new arrival in China to read. The purpose of the competition was to obtain an authoritative list of books that might serve as a foundation for a library dealing with all phases of Chinese life, art, trade, finance, customs, politics, international relations, and history. Several prizes were offered for the best lists of books and many contriutions were received. The competition was judged by the following persons: The Rev. F. L. Hawks-Pott, President St. John's University of Shanghai; Dr. Wu Ting Fang, former Chinese Minister to America and Premier of China under President Li; and Mr. Julean Arnold, American Commercial Attache, American Legation, Peking.

First Prize, $50, to Prof. W. Reginald Wheeler, Hangchow Christian College, Hangchow;

Second Prize, $30, to Dr. Arthur Smith, of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Peking; 

Third Prize, $20, to Mr. Roger D. Wolcott, of Soochow Academy, Soochow, China.

Fourth Prize, a year's subscription to the Review, tot he Rev. C. Deane Little, of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Yungchowfu, Hunan Province, China;

Fifth Prize, a subscription to the Review to Mr. S. Y. Cheng, of, No. 84, Pao An Lee, Shanghai

source: Milliard's Review of the Far East, Oct 27, 1917