Chapter 35 Hong Kong by Ingrams

Hong Kong by Ingrams In 1952, the Royal Publishing Bureau in London planned to publish a set of introductions to the dominions and colonies. A series of folk books.Called "Corolla Books".The first book published was "Hong Kong", the author is Harrow De Ingrams (Harold Imgrams: "Hong Kong").In order to be sent to write this "fragrant Hong Kong, visited Hong Kong for two months from March to May 1950. This is a book between an official report and a travel journal.The position is official and the stated Try to start from as many aspects as possible and start from small things in order to attract readers' interest.So this is not a Hong Kong

History is not a general travel book, but a book between the two. The content of this "Hong Kong" is very rich, with a total of 300 pages, divided into four parts, with Forty illustrations, nearly ten of which are in color, plus a number of illustrations and diagrams, accompanied by two Single map, one is Hong Kong and Kowloon streets and population density distribution map, the other is the whole map of Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories, both It is printed in color. If read as a history of Hong Kong, this book will be disappointing, but if read as a British official If you read what you have written about Hong Kong, you will be very interested everywhere.Because like all who come to this colony

Like the inspecting British officials, he kept saying that he wanted to personally approach ordinary Chinese residents in Hong Kong. People, but in fact can not do without some media, but at the same time can not get rid of their own "superiority". As a result, although Ingrams' "Hong Kong" was not written for us Chinese readers, it made us After reading it, the author was led away everywhere, and after listening to some dubious introductions, I still thought that Knowing the truth about the lives and thoughts of Chinese residents in Hong Kong, I can't help but smile knowingly.

Ingrams intends to write his "Hong Kong" a little more lightly, so as not to make people think it is The official propaganda text of the Colonial Department, trying to describe his personal contacts with Chinese residents of all walks of life in Hong Kong situation.The readers in his mind are of course not Chinese residents, but we are particularly interested in reading it. Because through this, you can understand what a British official can see when he arrives in Hong Kong, and what Chinese residents can see. People, ranging from gentry, compradors, British Chinese, to Chinese fishermen and street "coolies", in their

How it looks in the eyes and pen.So I said, if you read it from this angle, Ingrams's "Fragrant Hong Kong will be of particular interest to us. Let's take an example as proof: After Ingrams arrived in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong government sent a Zhong Mou, who served as the Deputy Secretary for Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China, as a As his guide, so that he can have the opportunity to observe the life of Chinese residents from all walks of life in Hong Kong.This deputy Hua Of course, the Secretary of Civil Affairs knew what the "foreign adults" wanted to see, so he first took him to visit Moro Street,

Hollywood Road and Da Dadi also introduced him to meet with the prime ministers of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and accept their feast, He took him to play in the "private club" in Xihuan, to see blind girls and private prostitutes, and to watch "chicken" on the street soliciting. On Hollywood Road, our Deputy Secretary for Home Affairs introduces the first one that Ingrams visited The Chinese store is something no one would have expected, in Ingrams' own words: "He turned immediately into a dimly lit shop lined with hollow tree trunks. Deep inside, there was

A small ruby ​​lamp shone before the altar.From this retreat the innkeeper came out with a sad look on his face. Face attitude to welcome both of us. "(page 29 of the original book) It turned out that the Chinese store in Hong Kong that the deputy Huamin government affairs guided the "foreign adults" to visit was the Dutch shop. A coffin shop on Lee Wood Road! I looked at the coffin village store, then I looked at the paper-making shop selling "Yinshi paper", and then brought "Foreign Master" Go to Dada to tell fortunes and read palms... In Ingrams' own words, this Mr. Zhong can be said to have a unique vision.

He first introduced the Chinese people's concept of the afterlife and the future world, and then introduced their current world Life. As for the Hong Kong colony in the eyes of ordinary British people themselves, what about it?ingrams also used I gave an interesting little story to illustrate (see page 42 of the original book): A Hong Kong Taipan not long after When I returned to England a few days ago, I wanted to send a letter back to Hong Kong at the London post office. The female staff at the London post office did not know that Hong Kong Hong Kong is a "British colony", and he was asked to pay according to foreign postage. After repeated excuses, he presented conclusive evidence

After the report, she believed it, but she was still a little unconvinced and said: "Well, that's the way it is, but I believe it must be a recent thing." The centennial commemorative stamps of the Hong Kong colony have already been issued, and there are still such women in the post office in London. Clerk, no wonder the Colonial Office is planning to publish this "Hong Kong".