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The collection consists of 129 rarely seen, unknown or little-known Chinese literary works from Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The majority of the titles in the collection were previously owned by some famous collectors, including: Wu Yinsun (吳引孫, 1851-1921), an official, scholar and collector who owned the well-known collection developed and housed in the Ce Hai Luo 測海樓; Tao Xiang (陶湘, 1870-1939), a well-known collector and publisher of exquisite editions of books and was active in Republican era; Chen Rong (陳融,1876-1953), an high official, scholar and collector who was active in Guangzhou and the house of his collection is still standing to this day. There are some lesser known scholars like Liang Yuanli (梁元理或梁鐵軍 , 1857-1906), a student of Kang Youwei 康有為, who tried to assassinate Empress Dowager Cixi, failed and was executed; Tom Leung (譚良, 1875-1931), another student of Kang Youwei, a strong supporter and important member of Bao Huang Hui 保皇會 in North America, who became a Chinese traditional medicine doctor in Los Angeles; Kiang Kang-hu (江亢虎 原名江紹銓, 1883-1954), a scholar and political activist, who founded Socialist Party of China and Southern University in Shanghai, taught Chinese language at University of California, Berkeley, cataloged Chinese books for and donated his two ancestors’ Imperial Palace Examination papers to the Library of Congress, was recruited by McGill University to head the Department of Chinese Studies in 1931, later joined Japanese-Sponsored Reorganized National Government of China, was arrested as a traitor and dead in a Shanghai jail in 1954. Little known collectors in Mainland China including Zhang Ruijing (張瑞京), whose collections are in superb editions and wide ranged in contents, and Imazeki Tenpō (今關天彭, 1884-1970), a leading Chinese studies scholar in Japan.
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大部分圖書可能購於 1950 或 1960 年代的香港九龙交流书报社。