翻檢香港舊報紙已有一年多的時間，除了K & W和Brewer的書目廣告以外，偶然會留意其他的廣告，諸如Lane, Crawford, Diary Farm, Moutrie, Jonnie Walker, Nestle, Falconer, Wing On, A-fong, 各間大小酒店(如Hongkong Hotel, Wydham Hotel, Peak Hotel, Kowloon Hotel等等)。當然還有報館本身的書目及印刷廣告，特別是Hongkong Daily Press，出版及印刺的書類品甚多，其出版的Directory and Chronicle除了銷售到中國國內主要的港口及城市之外，更遠銷至Singapore, Penang, Sydney, Calcultta, Berlin, Paris, London, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo等地，更不用說它早在二十世紀初已在London著名的新聞街Fleet Street設立辦公室了。
最有意思和研究價值的，我認為是洋人社會活動的廣告，例如Theatre Royal的廣告。在City Hall的Theatre Royal舉行的演唱會和話劇，既有本地洋人的業餘話劇團，也有外來的話劇團，上演Shakespeare的十二夜，也有來自意大利的馬戲團。這些演出的入場券幾乎都可以在K & W或Moutrie買到。晚上10時左右，City Hall的表演完結後，觀眾一湧而散，住在山頂上的洋人也不愁要苦等山頂纜車。山頂纜車營運至晚上十二時，適逢City Hall舉行晚演，都會加密班次，由平常夜間的三十分鐘一班加密至十五分鐘一班，幾乎與日間的班次密度一樣。
Sunday, 4 November 2007
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
日本洋学史 & Circulating libraries
宮永孝：《日本洋学史：葡．羅．蘭．英．独．仏．露語の受容》（東京：三修社，2004）。
Edward Jacobs, "Eighteenth-century British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History," Book History, 1 -21.
Edward Jacobs, "Eighteenth-century British Circulating Libraries and Cultural Book History," Book History, 1 -21.
Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Book history & Imperial historiography
Robert Darnton, "What is the History of Books?" The Book History Reader
Antoinette Burton, “Rules of Thumb: British History and ‘Imperial Culture’ in Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain,” Women’s History Review, vol. 3, no. 4 (1994), 483 – 501.
Antoinette Burton, “Rules of Thumb: British History and ‘Imperial Culture’ in Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain,” Women’s History Review, vol. 3, no. 4 (1994), 483 – 501.
Monday, 15 October 2007
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899, 1902).
Conrad's most acclaimed and controversial works. Finished one-fourth. Boring...indeed.
Conrad's most acclaimed and controversial works. Finished one-fourth. Boring...indeed.
Sunday, 14 October 2007
K & W part I
Kelly & Walsh's Hand-book to Hongkong (1893, 1908).
Why the original 1893 edition could not be checked out or photographed? BTW, the Xerox copy of the 1908 edition in the HKUL seems to be from the National Diet Library, Japan. From Faure? Lee?
Why the original 1893 edition could not be checked out or photographed? BTW, the Xerox copy of the 1908 edition in the HKUL seems to be from the National Diet Library, Japan. From Faure? Lee?
Saturday, 13 October 2007
Imperial publishing
Today's reading:
Leslie Howsam, "Imperial Publishers And The Idea Of Colonial History, 1870-1916," History of Intellectual Culture, vol. 5, no. 1 (2005).
http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/website/2005/papers/lhowsam_frameset.html
Abstract
Drawing on correspondence in their archives, this article discusses British publishers' engagement with the problem of colonial history from the 1870s to 1916. This was the period when history was becoming professionalized but, apart from J.R. Seeley, few academic historians were writing marketable books on imperial subjects. The publishers turned instead to colonial administrators or journalists while failing to recognize the originality of texts by colonists themselves. The methodology is a juxtaposition of historiographical issues with those raised by scholarship in the history of the book and print culture. The publishing history of Seeley's Expansion of England (Macmillan, 1883) is followed by three case studies concerning imperial narratives in English publishing houses: Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, and Macmillan & Co. The central argument is that the agency of publishers in the composition and conceptualization, as well as the marketing, of colonial histories has been neglected. The essay nuances the debates about early imperial historiography and enriches book-history scholarship by extending its methodologies to non-fictional sources.
Leslie Howsam, "Imperial Publishers And The Idea Of Colonial History, 1870-1916," History of Intellectual Culture, vol. 5, no. 1 (2005).
http://www.ucalgary.ca/hic/website/2005/papers/lhowsam_frameset.html
Abstract
Drawing on correspondence in their archives, this article discusses British publishers' engagement with the problem of colonial history from the 1870s to 1916. This was the period when history was becoming professionalized but, apart from J.R. Seeley, few academic historians were writing marketable books on imperial subjects. The publishers turned instead to colonial administrators or journalists while failing to recognize the originality of texts by colonists themselves. The methodology is a juxtaposition of historiographical issues with those raised by scholarship in the history of the book and print culture. The publishing history of Seeley's Expansion of England (Macmillan, 1883) is followed by three case studies concerning imperial narratives in English publishing houses: Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, and Macmillan & Co. The central argument is that the agency of publishers in the composition and conceptualization, as well as the marketing, of colonial histories has been neglected. The essay nuances the debates about early imperial historiography and enriches book-history scholarship by extending its methodologies to non-fictional sources.
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