Chinese Serial

Chinese Serial was the first Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong, since the Treaty of Nanjing. Founded in August 1853 and published by Ying Wa College in binding-book style. It introduced Western history, geography and sciences to Chinese readers, as well as reporting the latest news in China and the West. The paper was written mainly in Chinese, although some stories were in English. The paper was the first Chinese newspaper to have ads.

Chinese Serial
An issue of Chinese Serial. The Chinese text is "History of Joan of Arc" in Hong Kong Museum of History
Traditional Chinese遐爾貫珍
Literal meaningGems from Far and Near

History

Walter Henry Medhurst, a London-born missionary to China, was the first editor-in-chief of the paper. The publication terminated in May 1856 as Medhurst's successor James Legge, the third to hold the editorship and then principal of Ying Wa College, was occupied with school management.

A complete facsimile edition of the paper was published in 2006.

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gollark: Some theories have better evidence than others, they're never *definitely true*.
gollark: Well, I'm fairly sure you're wrong.
gollark: Nothing in real-world-interacting science is "proven" such that it's definitely true forever and ever.
gollark: You can prove that "in some physics model, energy is conserved"; you can't *prove* "this is the physical model the universe obeys", only show it's really really unlikely that it does anything else in the situations you test.

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References

Studies
  • (in Japanese) 松浦章，內田慶市，沈国威，『遐邇貫珍の研究』，吹田市: 関西大学出版部，平成16 [2004].
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