香港宋王臺

More photos taken in 1955-1956 at the Public Records Office, Hong Kong.

Librarian vs obscenity

obscenity? are you sure?



來源：《女朋友》，第1卷第1期，1932

1946年的黨化教育教科書

來源：《上海教育》，第1卷第1期，1946。

The Commercial Press and Dr. Marden

North-China Daily News, 1920

North-China Daily News, 1921

Shanghai Scottish

North-China Daily New, 19250718, p. 12a.

Heard at tea-time in our printing room a few days ago: “I was passing along Yates Road yesterday,” said one man, “when a ricsha came along in which was a man about to light his pipe. In the act of extracting a match from a full box, some of the others were dislodged, and three or four fell into the roadway. He stopped the ricsha immediately, went back and carefully retrieved the missing matches,” “Ha! One of the Shanghai Scottish,” exclaimed a Sassenach. “Not at all,” rejoined a member of that august body who was present. “If he had been one of the Shanghai Scottish he wouldn’t have been riding in a ricsha.”

Sir John Barrow and John Murray

Sir John Barrow was one of the inner ring of prolific Tory contributors to the Quarterly Review.

John Murray's greatest contribution to the advancement of knowledge and of human understanding of the world was his commissioning and publishing of dozens of books of travel. Murray's travel writers and artists went all over the globe: the advertisement includes books on Germany, Syria, Athens, China, the Cape of Good Hope, the interior of South America, and North Africa.

John Murray II was a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society.

Henry Ellis, Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China: comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of the Pei-Ho to the return to Canton (London: John Murray, 1817. 2nd ed., 1818).

Humphrey Carpenter, edited by Candida Brazil and James Hamilton, The seven lives of John Murray : the story of a publishing dynasty 1762-2002 (London: John Murray, 2008. with additional materials by James Hamilton), p. 124

The following list is by Sir John Barrow published by John Murray.

1. A chronological history of voyages into the Arctic regions: undertaken chiefly for the purpose of discovering a north-east, north-west, or polar passage between the Atlantic and Pacific : from the earliest periods of Scandinavian navigation, to the departure of the recent expeditions, under the orders of Captains Ross and Buchan – London: John Murray, 1818
2. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences – London: John Murray, 1831
3. A Memoir of the Life of Peter the Great – London: John Murray, 1832
4. The Life of Richard Earl Howe, K.G.: Admiral of the Fleet, and General of Marines – London: John Murray, 1838
5. The Life of George Anson, Admiral of the fleet; Vice-Admiral of Great Britain; and First Lord Commissioner of the Admirality; previous to, and during the Seven-Years' War – London: John Murray, 1839
6. Voyages of discovery and research within the Arctic regions, from the year 1818 to the present time: under the command of the several naval officers employed by sea and land in search of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with two attempts to reach the North Pole: abridged and arranged from the official narratives, with occasional remarks – London: John Murray, 1846

Hongkong in 1905

written in 2009...

As soon as I have immersed myself with Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan...I have always wanted to reconstruct, from the perspective of historical geography and sociology of cities and suburbs, the lanscape and everyday life of early Colonial Hongkong (here I prefer to use Hongkong instead of Hong Kong)

a note written in Jan 2017

一個國際城市，地產舖比書店多，海味舖比書店多，米蘭站比書店多，藥房比書店多，金行比書店多。PageOne執笠，誠品係百貨公司。書店門口俾閃閃書同抄股票佔領，補充練習佔地係文史哲英既三倍。喺地鐵同巴士度，冇好似日本／外國人咁睇書。你就知呢個城市同文化無緣。

以上只係偏見，只係偏見，只係偏見。見樹不見林。

今日香港，degree holders超過一百萬，遠超過三四十年前，點解有所謂冇人睇字睇書呢個講法？七八十年之交，大學學位少，但亦正值出版閱讀既黃金時代。同一個年代，電視電影音樂正值影視黃金時代，吸引到大學生入行。乜解？今日呢？

二十年前開始，電視人話冇人睇電視因為電影卡拉ok搶左生意，電影人話冇人睇戲因為盜版，唱片公司話冇人聽歌都係因為盜版。廿年前，租帶租碟舖執晒。十年黎，執左幾多間卡拉ok？點解？教育水平高左咁多，點解又少左人睇書？幾間大學既libraries都有fiction corner。我唔見多人留連。咁係咪代表少左人睇書？

聽歌免費，娛樂免費（唔將閱讀當係娛樂證明你唔適宜加入討論）。點解重要俾錢買書？睇演唱會一千蚊張飛必爆，王迪詩一本書幾錢？至於，點為止賣得呢？喺美國，一個星期賣到5,000本，就叫bestseller(Times top-15 list)。美國三億人口，5,000本就得。印度12億人口，都係10,000本。比例黎講，喺香港賣到200本，已經可以係bestseller。賣到5,000，比得上The Da Vinci Code同Harry Porter Potter。統計上係咁講啦。

香港讀者少呢個話題，永遠都講唔完。書／讀書／讀者，係霸權，讀書人既霸權。乾隆翻生，都會問點解冇人考科舉。xx x x

可口露

現在大學校長幾乎不可能是人文學者？

關於「現在大學校長幾乎不可能是人文學者」，補充下：
Duke係English
Cornell係classicist
Harvard, UC Berkeley係historian
八十年代HKU係historian

Social sciences既：
Toronto係urban theorist
Heidelberg係geographer
Yale, Washington係social psychologist
Oxford, UPenn, McGill 係political scientist
Wisconsin-Madison, Glasgow係economist
Columbia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Leiden, Waseda係lawyer