承前文關於香港革新會於1950年代中推動保護宋王臺的角色，定例局（即後來的立法局）議員何啟早在1898年於局上提議保護宋王臺。
The acquisition of New Territories and the government policy towards the Chinese must be considered.
定例局討論文件
https://www.legco.gov.hk/1897-98/yr9798.htm
https://www.legco.gov.hk/1897-98/h980815.pdf
Historical context:
1898年6月9日 展拓香港界址專條
Key figure in formulating British government policy towards New Territories: James Stewart Lockhart, Colonial Secretary 1895-1902, who was a close friend of Ho Kai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart_Lockhart
and the report:
https://industrialhistoryhk.org/lockhart-report-1898-fascinating-glimpse-industry/
Ho Kai: Choa, G.H. 1981. The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai. Hong Kong. The Chinese University Press.
Major-General Wilsone Black (acting Governor at the time)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilsone_Black
Henry Arthur Blake Governor, 1898-1903
港英政府冷待宋王臺？與陳蓓教授商榷
http://behind-the-news.blogspot.com/2014/08/blog-post.html
Kai Tak Airport History: https://gwulo.com/kai-tak-airport-history
South East Kowloon Development, Kowloon Development Office Territory Development Department, Hong Kong (2001):
https://www.epd.gov.hk/eia/register/report/eiareport/eia_0592001/12-9.pdf
Central Kowloon Route and Widening of Gascoigne Road Flyover Marine Archaeological Investigation (MAI), Kai Tak Development (2008)
https://www.epd.gov.hk/eia/register/report/eiareport/eia_2142013/EIA/appendix/Appendix%2010C.pdf
Monday, 6 May 2019
Monday, 22 April 2019
Entrepreneurship in blood: Stanley O. Gregory and the business of Kelly & Walsh
Over seventy years ago under the gloomy days in Shanghai due to the Japanese invasion, Stanley O. Gregory, manager of the publishers and booksellers Kelly & Walsh Ltd. Co. (KW), was interned in the Lunghwa camp with some other 500 prisoners of war.
Life in a POW camp was harsh. The 40-year-old Englishman, notwithstanding the hardship, had entrepreneurship in his blood and wrote a piece of 1600-word business memorandum (see below) in the last month of his internment in August 1945. Strong man. In the insightful memorandum he discussed the current situations of book importation of English and American books before the war and forecast the prospect after the war by giving six points of recommendations.
The article was sent to the trade journal The Publishers' Weekly via KW's long trading partner, Bill Hall, of H. M. Snyder and Co., and published at the end of 1945 when Gregory had left to join his family in Sydney.
Gregory's photographs of China taken in the 1930s and his papers are deposited in the National Library of Australia and have received scholarly interest recently in 2016 and 2018.
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Source: The Publishers' Weekly, Volume 148 Issue 26 Date December 29, 1945, pp. 2771-73.
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Life in a POW camp was harsh. The 40-year-old Englishman, notwithstanding the hardship, had entrepreneurship in his blood and wrote a piece of 1600-word business memorandum (see below) in the last month of his internment in August 1945. Strong man. In the insightful memorandum he discussed the current situations of book importation of English and American books before the war and forecast the prospect after the war by giving six points of recommendations.
The article was sent to the trade journal The Publishers' Weekly via KW's long trading partner, Bill Hall, of H. M. Snyder and Co., and published at the end of 1945 when Gregory had left to join his family in Sydney.
Gregory's photographs of China taken in the 1930s and his papers are deposited in the National Library of Australia and have received scholarly interest recently in 2016 and 2018.
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This
memorandum is intended for the consideration of publishers and book
distributors in England and America, and is concerned with the countries
occupied by Japan, with all of China, and, of course, Japan, but not Burma.
Together they include all the islands and continental countries usually
included under the term “The Far East,” for the area east of Singapore is more
than a geographical expression. It does form a natural self-contained
collection of landmass and islands, separated by mountain barrier and sea from
India, by sea from America, and by sea and desert from the inhabited parts of
Australia. The Far East is a unit, an important unit in world economy, and the
unity of this area will need to be recognized and allowed for in after-war
reconstruction and business economy.
In this area,
before the war, the language of commerce was almost entirely English, and
English was taught as a second language in schools and universities from Japan
to the Straits. This was less so, naturally, in French Indo-China (always
rather jealously closed to non-French trade and customs) and in the Dutch East
Indies (where, however, English was a very good second to Dutch). In the
Straits, Siam and Hong Kong, the instruction was in the British tradition,
while in the Philippine Islands, it was in the American. In China, almost all
of the important universities were staffed and run by trained British and
Americans, appointed through missionary societies, who also were responsible
for many big schools of various types throughout the country. In Japan, eminent
professors and trained teachers from England and America were to be found in
the universities and important schools. Thus the people of these countries were
acquiring the tradition of learning English as a second language and were using
it to converse in with each other, with people of other countries, and, where
local dialects as in China prevented intercourse, even of necessity between
nationals of the same country. Add that the European resident, merchant or
traveller in the Far East speaks English and you have a picture of this part of
the world in which has been developing an interest in and a feeling for books
in English, and thereby, what is more important, the civilization and culture
that they represent.
And to meet
the demand there has been an increasing circulation of
English books [hoito: emphasis mine], either English or American editions, or editions
authorized for local issue, or unauthorized, pirated copies. The publisher or bookdealer abroad can scarcely appreciate
the tremendous trade in pirated books, produced mainly in Shanghai, a trade
that has irritated educational publishers since the beginning of the century,
but that only of recent years has grown to such a size that it was displacing
regular editions of all types of books not only in China, but in Hong Kong, the
Philippine Islands, and elsewhere. Reproduction was photographic, publishers’
imprint was omitted (to evade Chinese Trade Mark law), a cheaper paper and
binding used, and the price was so ridiculously less than that of the original
that no price adjustment by the copyright owner was possible whereby genuine
copies could be sold against the pirates. This was most obvious with technical,
engineering, medical, legal and other normally highly-priced text and reference
books. A medical book at say US$7.50 or 36/- would be sold in a pirate
edition as the equivalent of US$2.—or 10/-. Several years back the Oxford Press
cut the price of the “Concise Oxford Dictionary,” for the China market, to less
than half, to enable competition with the pirated issue, but even so the pirated issue was still priced almost a third cheaper.
Now the
justification of those who pirated books for educational use in schools and
universities was that the Chinese student could not afford the higher-priced
originals. This was (and doubtless still is) the attitude of the Chinese
government, to whom the needs of the Chinese student are of more concern than
the rights of foreign authors. In China, to study is a most honorable ambition,
and there is an age-old tradition of respect towards study and learning such as
does not exist in England or America, where more practical or martial pursuits
have been more highly honored. And the Chinese government is well aware of the
importance and urgency of spreading modern knowledge among its 400 million
people. And if the many Chinese students cannot pay for foreign editions of
necessary books, the Chinese government has no intention of discouraging them
from buying what they can afford, cheap local reprints. This is an economic
position that must be accepted.
But is
[hoito: it] is no less important from the Western point of view that our
tradition should be widely diffused in China. By its size, if by nothing else,
China will be the strength behind whatever civilization rules in the Far East.
The Chinese boast that they have absorbed all their conquerors, and this is a
country whose spirit is alien to the spirit of the totalitarian nations. It
behooves us therefore to encourage the spreading of our Western ideas and
ideals of a Christian democracy. We cannot wish to restrict the diffusion of
Western writings. It is essential that British and American books circulate
widely in China, but at a Chinese price.
At present
the Chinese copyright law is of little value to the owner of a foreign
copyright. The Chinese government has not been encouraging to overtures from
abroad for copyright protection, for the reason already mentioned — the high
price of original editions in terms of Chinese purchasing. There is no reason
to suppose however that the pirates could not be eliminated, copyright
protected, and larger profitable sales realized with special China editions
produced for the low price China market. The Chinese government would agree to
copyright protection provided this need is met. The alternative before British
and American publishers is the choice between authorized and unauthorized cheap
editions. With authorized reprints, they can be assured of copyright
protection, for here ethics and economics march together.
It is to be
hoped that publishers will now be considering a future policy for the Far East,
which will involve for China two aspects. Generally from the Far East there will
be requests from libraries, universities, institutions and others for gifts of
books. So much damage has been done, so many libraries despoiled, so many
institutions destroyed, that ordinary income or even special grants cannot
suffice to replace the loss, or to add publications issued since the outbreak
of the war. China has suffered particularly from the removal of universities
from one part to another and from destruction by loot and fire, and so far as
China is concerned, a generous gift policy might be bound in with the provision
of adequate copyright laws. Publishers should therefore be represented on any
bodies formed for assisting China in this way.
Cheap
editions for China implies production in China, generally
speaking, and suggests that publishers both in England
and in America will find it valuable and necessary to pay more attention in the
future to the Far East. This is one section of the world which suffers
from entirely too little direct representation. There are big booksellers, such
as Maruzen (in Japan), Kelly & Walsh (in China
& the Straits), the Commercial Press (in China), or the Philippine
Education Co. (in the Philippine Islands), all of whom are also printers
and publishers on their own account, but who do not have the organization to
represent publishers in travelling or in visiting educational authorities,
universities and so on, or in financing or arranging for general distribution
of local editions. China is here primarily in mind, but the Far East must be
thought of as a whole and there should be adequate publisher’s representation
to cover all the countries east of Singapore. Such representation could often
be joint, but so far as China is concerned, must include authority not only to sell but also to produce, where needed,
cheap local editions.
The cheap
edition includes mainly books for educational purposes, for schools and universities, and of these only of course those selected and used in such
institutions. Cheap editions can only be issued where a profitable demand is
assured. This leaves a very large field for the normal sale of regular
editions, and this sale will be considerable. There is
every reason to believe that the Far East will want more British and American
books after the war than before. There’ll be the temporary big
replacement demand, but in addition there has been a steadily increasing
English reading public, due to the use of English as a commercial medium, and
as a second language by increasing numbers of educated people. British and
American ideas and ideals will be more important to these millions of people
and there will definitely be closer contacts with the West. Though the number
of resident foreigners may be less, there will be a tremendous increase in
demand for British and American books by the peoples of these countries.
Publishers
in England and America should therefore be considering these points:- (1) The
wide demand that the ending of the war will bring from the Far East for English
and American books: (2) the requests for gifts of books on behalf of libraries
despoiled by the war; (3) the pirate book menace from China, which can only
finally be met by (4) a satisfactory copyright agreement with China, implying
(5) authorized production in China of cheap editions for the China market,
mainly for use in schools and universities; and, (6) permanent representation
in the Far East to deal with vastly increasing business.
Source: The Publishers' Weekly, Volume 148 Issue 26 Date December 29, 1945, pp. 2771-73.
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Friday, 29 March 2019
The Book of Knowledge: The Children's Encyclopaedia in Shanghai
Three days before the May Fourth Movement broke out in Beijing, the Shanghai-based Chinese American Publishing Company put up an advertisement of The Book of Knowledge: The Children's Encyclopaedia for the publisher Grolier Society in New York.
source: North-China Daily News, 1 May 1919.
source: North-China Daily News, 1 May 1919.
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Whiteaway's import of The Readers Library in 1926
On 4 November 1926, Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. placed an advertisement on South China Morning Post to promote its recently import of The Readers Library, London, offering 35 cents each or 3 for $1.00. It includes the following standard works (mainly British and American authors):
Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers
H. Rider Haggard's She and King Solomon's Mines
H. G. Wells's The Time Machine
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, A Tale of Two Cities, and A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth
Achmed Abdullah's The Thief of Bagdad, A story from the Arabian Night
Harrison Ainsworth's The Tower of London
Bret Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp
Washington Irving's Rep Van Winkle
Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Kenilworth
Bulwer Lytton's Eugene Aram and The Last Days of Pompeii
George Eliot's The Million on the Floss
Harold Copping's The Pilgrim's Progress
J. Fenimore Cooper's The Pathfinder
Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad
Harold MacGrath's The Man on the Box
Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905]
The Readers Library, in the foreword of each volume, aspired to "bring the best-known novels of the world within the reach of the millions, by presenting at the lowest possible price per copy, in convenient size, on excellent paper, with beautiful and durable binding, a long series of the stories, copyright and non-copyright, which everyone has heard of and could desire to read.
Nothing of the kind has ever before been possible, even in the days when book production has been least expensive. To render it possible now it will be necessary that each volume should have a sale of hundreds of thousands of copies, and that many volumes of the series should in due course find their way into nearly every home, however humble, in the British Empire."
Further reference: Q. D. Leavis's Fiction And The Reading Public (1939), A Series of Series' Readers Library.
Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers
H. Rider Haggard's She and King Solomon's Mines
H. G. Wells's The Time Machine
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, A Tale of Two Cities, and A Christmas Carol and The Cricket on the Hearth
Achmed Abdullah's The Thief of Bagdad, A story from the Arabian Night
Harrison Ainsworth's The Tower of London
Bret Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp
Washington Irving's Rep Van Winkle
Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Kenilworth
Bulwer Lytton's Eugene Aram and The Last Days of Pompeii
George Eliot's The Million on the Floss
Harold Copping's The Pilgrim's Progress
J. Fenimore Cooper's The Pathfinder
Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad
Harold MacGrath's The Man on the Box
Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905]
The Readers Library, in the foreword of each volume, aspired to "bring the best-known novels of the world within the reach of the millions, by presenting at the lowest possible price per copy, in convenient size, on excellent paper, with beautiful and durable binding, a long series of the stories, copyright and non-copyright, which everyone has heard of and could desire to read.
Nothing of the kind has ever before been possible, even in the days when book production has been least expensive. To render it possible now it will be necessary that each volume should have a sale of hundreds of thousands of copies, and that many volumes of the series should in due course find their way into nearly every home, however humble, in the British Empire."
Further reference: Q. D. Leavis's Fiction And The Reading Public (1939), A Series of Series' Readers Library.
Monday, 18 March 2019
Helena May Library in 1936
Helena May Library
A fine collection of books available to members
by "Abigail"
...
The Library Committee consists of five members of the Helena May. This year, the Committee includes Mrs. A. V. Greaves (Chairman), Mrs. W. J. Roberts (Hon. Secretary) and Mesdames J. W. Anderson, G. M. D. D. Wolf and Harold Sheldon.
Every two weeks, this able Committee meets and a new selection of books are added to the Library.
"A selection of books are given to us regularly by Kelly and Walsh," Mrs. Greaves told me the other day. "Our Committee," she explained, "read over the books - in fact 'shroff' them." Some books are turned down and the others, of course, go on the shelves.
...
The Library ... has got a very catholic collection of books. They range from serious reading to books on cookery, the art of riding and "How to Play Contract Bridge."
...
Mrs. Greaves said, "...Most of our Miscellaneous books come from the 'Times Book Club.'"
Children's Section
"Another idea which we are at work on now is the building up of a really fine Children's Section. ..."
...
Of course, it is well-nigh impossible to give anything like a full list of the books in the Library.
Here are a few I saw the other day when I visited the Library.
"Last of the Empresses" (Daniele Vare); "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (T. E. Lawrence); Bound copies of the "Hongkong Naturalist"; ... several of Cecil Roberts' books on the English country; "Son of Heaven" (Prince Der Ling); ... China Changes" (G. J. Yorke); ..."My Country and My People" (Lin Yutant); "In Search of Old Peking" (Arlington and Lewisohn).
Source: South China Morning Post, Oct 22, 1936, p. 11.
A fine collection of books available to members
by "Abigail"
...
The Library Committee consists of five members of the Helena May. This year, the Committee includes Mrs. A. V. Greaves (Chairman), Mrs. W. J. Roberts (Hon. Secretary) and Mesdames J. W. Anderson, G. M. D. D. Wolf and Harold Sheldon.
Every two weeks, this able Committee meets and a new selection of books are added to the Library.
"A selection of books are given to us regularly by Kelly and Walsh," Mrs. Greaves told me the other day. "Our Committee," she explained, "read over the books - in fact 'shroff' them." Some books are turned down and the others, of course, go on the shelves.
...
The Library ... has got a very catholic collection of books. They range from serious reading to books on cookery, the art of riding and "How to Play Contract Bridge."
...
Mrs. Greaves said, "...Most of our Miscellaneous books come from the 'Times Book Club.'"
Children's Section
"Another idea which we are at work on now is the building up of a really fine Children's Section. ..."
...
Of course, it is well-nigh impossible to give anything like a full list of the books in the Library.
Here are a few I saw the other day when I visited the Library.
"Last of the Empresses" (Daniele Vare); "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (T. E. Lawrence); Bound copies of the "Hongkong Naturalist"; ... several of Cecil Roberts' books on the English country; "Son of Heaven" (Prince Der Ling); ... China Changes" (G. J. Yorke); ..."My Country and My People" (Lin Yutant); "In Search of Old Peking" (Arlington and Lewisohn).
Source: South China Morning Post, Oct 22, 1936, p. 11.
Tuesday, 5 March 2019
Book bargain in Shanghai, 1919
In addition to the London-based Mudie's Library's book bargain advertisements (see below) on the North-China Daily News (NCDN) in 1919, the leading Shanghai bookseller Chinese American Publishing, aka the American Bookshop held book bargain sales in the shop regularly and posted advertisements on the same newspaper to attract customers to visit them on 26 Canton Road (see below).
The advert lists a wide range classic works including classical philosopher Plato and essayist Plutarch, sixteenth-century writer Cervantes and playwright Shakespeare (who died on 22 and 23 April 1616 respectively), nineteenth-century authors Burns, Balzac, Hugo and Maupassant, and the contemporary novelist Kipling. "In splendid bindings, and antique paper and clear type", they are offered readers, or more likely book collectors to furnish their houses, at special prices cheaper than publishers price.
The advert lists a wide range classic works including classical philosopher Plato and essayist Plutarch, sixteenth-century writer Cervantes and playwright Shakespeare (who died on 22 and 23 April 1616 respectively), nineteenth-century authors Burns, Balzac, Hugo and Maupassant, and the contemporary novelist Kipling. "In splendid bindings, and antique paper and clear type", they are offered readers, or more likely book collectors to furnish their houses, at special prices cheaper than publishers price.
NCDN, 31 January 1919, p. 11.
NCDN, 24 February 1919, p. 15.
Sunday, 3 March 2019
Other cook books 1917 & 1932
Chan, Shiu Wong. 1917. The Chinese cook book: Containing more than one hundred recipes for everyday food prepared in the wholesome Chinese way, and many recipes of unique dishes peculiar to the Chinese–including Chinese Pastry, “Stove Pastries,” and Chinese Candies" (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1917). Chinese title: 中菜指南. 151 recipes.
The Chinese Students' Monthly, vol. 13, no. 5, March 1918, p. 290. Reviewed by (Miss) M. I. Han, Mount Holyoke
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Nellie C. Wong's Chinese Dishes for Foreign Homes (1932 / 1933)
Nellie C. Wong's Chinese Dishes for Foreign Homes: A revised and enlarged edition of the popular “Chinese Recipes.” (Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1932, xii + 87 p. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., Second impression, 1933, xii + 98 p.). Handsewn on exterior. Printed in Shanghai. 86 recipes.
The owner of Nellie Wong Tea Shop in Peking.
Kelly & Walsh's advertisement showing in A Guide to Catholic Shanghai (Shanghai: T'ou-se-we Press, 1937, facing p. 30) selling at $5.00 whilst F. L. Hawks's A Sketch of Chinese History at the same price and Juliet Bredon's Peking: A historical intimate description of its chief places of interest at $17.5.
The China Monthly Review, v. 66, 1933, p. 126.
The first edition of this worth-while book of Chinese recipes for foreign homes, escaped the review's attention, and the revised edition finds a hearty welcome to an all too-limited library of cook books. The author had a very valuable thought when she conceived the idea to compile a book of Chinese recipes, which are so scientifically correct, that given to the laymen for the first time, can be transferred into edible and tasty dishes for our foreign tables. Too often we have asked how to prepare these savory dishes which are given us by our genial Chinese hosts, and both the names of the ingredients and the art of attaining the fine delicate flavor are beyond out ability. This book is delightful and fills a long felt need in the foreign home.
There are nearly one-hundred Chinese recipes, easy-to-follow, found in Miss Wong's book, accompanied by excellent illustrations on how to prepare a table for a Chinese dinner, vegetables, correct method of preparing Chinese tea, which is a fine art in itself, and signifies the oldest Chinese word of welcome.
According to Chandra Oroszváry's Chinese American cuisine and the Chinese restaurant industry in the United States (MA unpublished dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009, p. 48), some of Wong's recipes "had originally appeared in American newspapers and magazines such as the Herald Tribune and Good Housekeeping."
Saturday, 23 February 2019
伊文思圖書館致北京大學校長（1918）
伊文思圖書館致校長函
眼授教育，己公認為最善之教授方法矣。因難得合宜之影片，且其價太重，中國大學數學校，遂未採用此法。使影片能租用，則其價可大減矣。
下列各種影片，係分組排列，可照下列價目，或租用一星期，或購買（郵費另加）。敝公司用郵局包裹法寄出，當退回時，亦請用此法。若稍有破壞，租用者當收到時，應立行報告敝公司，否則租用者須負責也。影片退回時，如有破壞，租用者亦須負責。為預防破壞起見，請嚴密包裹，如收到時也。影片類別如後。
一醫學類。（人類生理學，共一百六十五片。）
二宗教類。
三教育類。（每影片，均有解說，故全組可成對於一事之演講。）
1 石油。此組共二十影片。指示如何開井，如何製油，及如何輸出之情形。租用，全組租價二元。購買，價值二十元。
2 火車頭之製造。全組共二十三片。借用，二元，買，二十三元。
3 紙之製造。全組共十八片。租，二元。買，十八元。
4 針之製造。共十三片。租，一元二角五分。買，十三元。
5 棉花之製造。共二十一片。租，二元。買，二十一元。
6 麻之製造。共十三片。租，一元五角。買，十三元。
7 絲之製造。共四十八片。指示中西造絲之法。借，三元。買，四十八元。
8 羊與羊毛。共十五片。租，一元五角。買，十五元。
9 牛。共十二片。租，一元。買，十二元。
10 皮之製造。共十一片。租，一元。買，十一元。
11 糖之製造。共二十八片。租，二元。買，二十八元。
12 中西穀類出產及保存之法。共二十三片。租，二元。買，二十三元。
13 咖啡之出產。共九片。租，一元。買，九元。
14 煙葉之種植。共七片。租，一元。買，七元。
15 竹之種植及用途。共七片。租，一元。買，七元。
16 挨及高麗日本等地陶器之製造。共十四片。租，一元二角五分。買，十四元。
17 玻璃及瓶之製造。共七片。租，一元。買，七元。
18 煤之開採。共三十六片。租，三元。買，三十六元。
19 鐵與鋼之製造。共三十一片。租，三元。買，三十一元。
20 金礦之開採。共十二片。租，一元二角五分。買，十二元。
21 銅。共六片。租，一元。買，六元。
22 各種飛機。共三十一片。租，三元。買，三十一元。
23 蟻與其生活。共三十一片。租三元。買，三十一元。
四雜類。內有各種地圖及特別片子（每片租價一角買價一元）
又敝公司不久將收到新影片，彼時當另開單通知。前單中之醫學類影片，已賣完。其他雖間有賣完者，然不久，就要到新的。
下列三組影片，想先生必甚注意。如欲租用，請早日通知。
（一）中國城市之衛生。（三十六片）
（二）蠅之殺人。（三十二片）
以上二組，乃中華衛生教育聯合會所製成者。附有中西文之演講，租用每星期各三元。
（三）林肯之生活。（二十五片）
租用二元五角。
資料來源：《北京大學日刊》，第210號，1918年9月23日，第4-5版。
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上海伊文思公司來函
北京大學總務處收發課
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年禧
十一年十二月二十九號
（該公司書目係贈送本校教職員每人一本，現已寄到，本日由收發課分送。編者附白。）
資料來源：《北京大學日刊》，第1149號，1923年1月8日，第2版。
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眼授教育，己公認為最善之教授方法矣。因難得合宜之影片，且其價太重，中國大學數學校，遂未採用此法。使影片能租用，則其價可大減矣。
下列各種影片，係分組排列，可照下列價目，或租用一星期，或購買（郵費另加）。敝公司用郵局包裹法寄出，當退回時，亦請用此法。若稍有破壞，租用者當收到時，應立行報告敝公司，否則租用者須負責也。影片退回時，如有破壞，租用者亦須負責。為預防破壞起見，請嚴密包裹，如收到時也。影片類別如後。
一醫學類。（人類生理學，共一百六十五片。）
二宗教類。
三教育類。（每影片，均有解說，故全組可成對於一事之演講。）
1 石油。此組共二十影片。指示如何開井，如何製油，及如何輸出之情形。租用，全組租價二元。購買，價值二十元。
2 火車頭之製造。全組共二十三片。借用，二元，買，二十三元。
3 紙之製造。全組共十八片。租，二元。買，十八元。
4 針之製造。共十三片。租，一元二角五分。買，十三元。
5 棉花之製造。共二十一片。租，二元。買，二十一元。
6 麻之製造。共十三片。租，一元五角。買，十三元。
7 絲之製造。共四十八片。指示中西造絲之法。借，三元。買，四十八元。
8 羊與羊毛。共十五片。租，一元五角。買，十五元。
9 牛。共十二片。租，一元。買，十二元。
10 皮之製造。共十一片。租，一元。買，十一元。
11 糖之製造。共二十八片。租，二元。買，二十八元。
12 中西穀類出產及保存之法。共二十三片。租，二元。買，二十三元。
13 咖啡之出產。共九片。租，一元。買，九元。
14 煙葉之種植。共七片。租，一元。買，七元。
15 竹之種植及用途。共七片。租，一元。買，七元。
16 挨及高麗日本等地陶器之製造。共十四片。租，一元二角五分。買，十四元。
17 玻璃及瓶之製造。共七片。租，一元。買，七元。
18 煤之開採。共三十六片。租，三元。買，三十六元。
19 鐵與鋼之製造。共三十一片。租，三元。買，三十一元。
20 金礦之開採。共十二片。租，一元二角五分。買，十二元。
21 銅。共六片。租，一元。買，六元。
22 各種飛機。共三十一片。租，三元。買，三十一元。
23 蟻與其生活。共三十一片。租三元。買，三十一元。
四雜類。內有各種地圖及特別片子（每片租價一角買價一元）
又敝公司不久將收到新影片，彼時當另開單通知。前單中之醫學類影片，已賣完。其他雖間有賣完者，然不久，就要到新的。
下列三組影片，想先生必甚注意。如欲租用，請早日通知。
（一）中國城市之衛生。（三十六片）
（二）蠅之殺人。（三十二片）
以上二組，乃中華衛生教育聯合會所製成者。附有中西文之演講，租用每星期各三元。
（三）林肯之生活。（二十五片）
租用二元五角。
資料來源：《北京大學日刊》，第210號，1918年9月23日，第4-5版。
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年禧
十一年十二月二十九號
（該公司書目係贈送本校教職員每人一本，現已寄到，本日由收發課分送。編者附白。）
資料來源：《北京大學日刊》，第1149號，1923年1月8日，第2版。
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Tuesday, 12 February 2019
The Oriental Cook Book 西法食譜
Mrs. W. S. Emens comp. The Oriental Cook Book: A Guide to Marketing and Cooking (Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1889. A Chinese edition, entitled 西法食譜 bound in Chinese style was published by APMP simultaneously. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1898 2nd ed., 1905 3rd ed.).
The following table of content is from 1898 edition:
Marketing 論菜市上的東西
Groceries 論雜貨
Care of Food 論小心保守食物
Soups 論湯
Fish 論煮魚的法則
Meats 論煮肉的法則
Poultry and Game 論煑雞類與野味
Entrée 論小炒
Dressings for Salads 論撒勒突醬
Salads 論撒勒突
Meat and Fish Sauces 論魚與肉的汁
Force-meat and Garnishes 論做肉粉與裝花的法則
Vegetables 論煑蔬菜的法則
Pies 論派愛
Puddings 論樸定
Sauces for Puddings 論樸定的掃司
Dessert 論小吃
Ice Cream 論氷及立
Water Ices 論氷凍汁
Cakes 論糕
Icing for Cakes 論挨愛星的做法
Short Cake 論[手裊]克開脫
Dumplings 論屯潑令
Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Fritters and Pancakes 論馬非音、煎餅、弗立偷、薄餅
Breakfast and Tea 論早點與晚點
Economical Dishes 論省儉的東西
Bread 論饅頭
Preserving 論糖食
Pickles and Ketchup 論酸果與醬
For the Sick 論病人吃的東西
Drinks 論喝的東西
How to do Various Things 論做雜物的法則
Bills of Fare 論菜單
Glossary 論註解
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A few scholars endeavoured to discuss the 1889 Chinese edition but were unable to obtain a copy of the English-and-Chinese versions in hand leaving them with unanswered questions and untenable conclusions.
The preface to the first edition tells us the sources as follows:
The following recipes have been selected mainly from Miss Parloa's New Cook Book. Selections from other standard cook books and recipes from friends have also been used. The translator has endeavored to adapt the book to local requirements; but the ability to translate from English in Chinese led her to undertake the task, rather than experience in cookery.
The cook book is intended to not only English readers but also Chinese cooks to expatriates. It reads:
The Chinese text will be readily understood by a native cook of average intelligence. Names of articles for which there is no equivalent in Chinese, and of certain dishes are designated by characters which sound like the French or English terms.
She goes on by providing a few examples. Peh-teh-yeu (白塔油) for butter , Ka-lang-ts (加蘭子) for currants. So a glossary is added for easy reference.
The preface was not signed. Had a reader of the North-China Daily News browsed the "new and standard books" advertisements of Kelly & Walsh, booksellers and publishers, in late January and early February of 1890, the reader will known that it was compiled by Mrs. W. S. Emens. The price of the book was $3. It was also being sold in London by Trübner for 15s (Trübner's Record, A journal devoted to the literature of the east, third series, vol. 2, no. 1, May 1890, p. 64).
According to Woman's work for woman (vol. 10, no. 12, December 1895), Mrs. W. S. Emens (Mr. W. S. Emens being U.S. Vice Consul-General, Interpreter, and Assessor at Mixed Court, Shanghai) was the eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Farnham of Shanghai and passed away in Chefoo. Although she was not an appointed missionary, it reads, "living in China and well versed in the Chinese tongue, she was in a position to be very useful among the people" (p. 322).
Source: HathiTrust. Signed by James Dyer Ball, who published The English-Chinese Cookery Book, containing 200 receipts in English and Chinese 西國品味求真 (Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, 1890). To be discussed.
The following table of content is from 1898 edition:
Marketing 論菜市上的東西
Groceries 論雜貨
Care of Food 論小心保守食物
Soups 論湯
Fish 論煮魚的法則
Meats 論煮肉的法則
Poultry and Game 論煑雞類與野味
Entrée 論小炒
Dressings for Salads 論撒勒突醬
Salads 論撒勒突
Meat and Fish Sauces 論魚與肉的汁
Force-meat and Garnishes 論做肉粉與裝花的法則
Vegetables 論煑蔬菜的法則
Pies 論派愛
Puddings 論樸定
Sauces for Puddings 論樸定的掃司
Dessert 論小吃
Ice Cream 論氷及立
Water Ices 論氷凍汁
Cakes 論糕
Icing for Cakes 論挨愛星的做法
Short Cake 論[手裊]克開脫
Dumplings 論屯潑令
Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Fritters and Pancakes 論馬非音、煎餅、弗立偷、薄餅
Breakfast and Tea 論早點與晚點
Economical Dishes 論省儉的東西
Bread 論饅頭
Preserving 論糖食
Pickles and Ketchup 論酸果與醬
For the Sick 論病人吃的東西
Drinks 論喝的東西
How to do Various Things 論做雜物的法則
Bills of Fare 論菜單
Glossary 論註解
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A few scholars endeavoured to discuss the 1889 Chinese edition but were unable to obtain a copy of the English-and-Chinese versions in hand leaving them with unanswered questions and untenable conclusions.
The preface to the first edition tells us the sources as follows:
The following recipes have been selected mainly from Miss Parloa's New Cook Book. Selections from other standard cook books and recipes from friends have also been used. The translator has endeavored to adapt the book to local requirements; but the ability to translate from English in Chinese led her to undertake the task, rather than experience in cookery.
The cook book is intended to not only English readers but also Chinese cooks to expatriates. It reads:
The Chinese text will be readily understood by a native cook of average intelligence. Names of articles for which there is no equivalent in Chinese, and of certain dishes are designated by characters which sound like the French or English terms.
She goes on by providing a few examples. Peh-teh-yeu (白塔油) for butter , Ka-lang-ts (加蘭子) for currants. So a glossary is added for easy reference.
The preface was not signed. Had a reader of the North-China Daily News browsed the "new and standard books" advertisements of Kelly & Walsh, booksellers and publishers, in late January and early February of 1890, the reader will known that it was compiled by Mrs. W. S. Emens. The price of the book was $3. It was also being sold in London by Trübner for 15s (Trübner's Record, A journal devoted to the literature of the east, third series, vol. 2, no. 1, May 1890, p. 64).
According to Woman's work for woman (vol. 10, no. 12, December 1895), Mrs. W. S. Emens (Mr. W. S. Emens being U.S. Vice Consul-General, Interpreter, and Assessor at Mixed Court, Shanghai) was the eldest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Farnham of Shanghai and passed away in Chefoo. Although she was not an appointed missionary, it reads, "living in China and well versed in the Chinese tongue, she was in a position to be very useful among the people" (p. 322).
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We learn from the publishers’ preface that this invaluable work has been out of print for nearly two years, and Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Ld., will undoubtedly earn the gratitude of hundreds of housewives by sending out a second edition of it. It comes in a handsome dress of yellow and black, and is very well and clearly printed. The recipes it contains have stood the test of years, and if any Chinese cook cannot understand them, it is not the fault of the translator, but of the cook’s ignorance. No lady who keeps house in China can afford to be without this book, which has been a guide, philosopher, and friend to hundreds, and will continue its services to thousands more.
(source: NCH, May 23, 1898, p. 882)
Sunday, 10 February 2019
sources of 造洋飯書 Foreign Cookery in Chinese
造洋飯書 Foreign Cookery in Chinese (Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1866, 1885, 1909) was written by the American missionary Martha Foster Crawford of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The content is as follows (details to be added later):
目錄
廚房條例
湯
魚
肉
蛋
小湯
菜
酸果
糖食
排
面皮
朴定
甜湯
雜類
饅頭
餅
糕
雜類
I decoded that part of the content is from Eliza Leslie's, aka Miss Leslie, cookery books, which were highly popular and affordable in mid-nineteenth-century U.S.A. Three of her books can be downloaded from Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project. Miss Leslie was more than a cook book writer but an author of etiquette and domestic management books as well.
Decoding mission to be continued...
目錄
廚房條例
湯
魚
肉
蛋
小湯
菜
酸果
糖食
排
面皮
朴定
甜湯
雜類
饅頭
餅
糕
雜類
I decoded that part of the content is from Eliza Leslie's, aka Miss Leslie, cookery books, which were highly popular and affordable in mid-nineteenth-century U.S.A. Three of her books can be downloaded from Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project. Miss Leslie was more than a cook book writer but an author of etiquette and domestic management books as well.
Decoding mission to be continued...
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