Nanyang Book Talk: Records of Old Books and Periodicals from Hong Kong, Nanyang, and the Republic of China

★ Turning over the yellowed pages, we can recall the cultural moments of Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and the Republic of China era...
★ Recommended by Hong Kong veteran media person, book collector, and former editor-in-chief of Apple Daily, Cheng Ming-jen.
Sincerely recommended by Taiwan's senior editor and book writer Fu Yue'an

Author Xiao Yonglong was born in Malaysia and graduated from the Graduate Institute of History at National Tsing Hua University. His book collecting journey began with an old edition of Jin Yong. Due to his academic background, his book reviews are characterized by rational research, each word and sentence conveying a "scholarly" style.

This book is divided into three parts, focusing on old books and periodicals from Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and the Republican era. Due to category restrictions, the appendix also includes two discussions on the Western illustrated edition of Alice in Wonderland and the late Qing Dynasty novel The Romance of Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao.

The author has compiled four years of book reviews published on various platforms in Hong Kong and Malaysia into a book, revising and polishing the text to give it a new lease of life. Each article is accompanied by a rare photo of the book, giving readers the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of these now-hard-to-find vintage publications.

Xiao Yonglong

Born in Malacca in 1988, I am a Malaysian. I graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tunku Abdul Rahman University and received my Master's degree in History from National Tsing Hua University. My family was poor in my early years and I could not afford to buy books. Fortunately, the school library had a rich collection, which laid a solid foundation for my reading. Driven by interest and to make up for the childhood deficiencies, I often traveled to bookstores around the world to search for books. Finally, I stumbled upon an old edition of Jin Yong, which inadvertently opened my eyes to rare works by Jin Yong. I then turned my attention to writers from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Malaysia, and have collected works by Liu Yichang, Eileen Chang, Xi Xi, San Si Hao Zi Xiao Shuo, Sirius Star, and Shenzhou Poetry Society. I currently enjoy writing book reviews, which have appeared in Malaysia's Sin Chew Daily, China Press, Malaysiakini, and Xue Wen, as well as Hong Kong's Micro-Pic Paratext.

Author's Preface: Exploring the New and Searching for the Old: Reconnaissance of the History of Old Books and Periodicals 8
◉ Xiao Yonglong
Recommended Preface to the Book Collector's Alchemy 12
◉ Cheng Mingren (Hong Kong veteran media professional, bibliophile, and former editor-in-chief of Apple Daily)
Introduction: The past is like smoke: Looking back at the cultural colors of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia in the past 14
◉ Kuang Jianming (Editor-in-Chief of Taiwan Monsoon Culture)

Gallery 21

Volume 1: Looking Back at Old Books in Hong Kong <br />Liu Yichang's Three-cent Novels and Re-creation 33
Choosing Words and Sentences: On Zhang Ailing's "Yangge" 43
My Martial Arts Novel Dream: Talking about Jin Yong's Old Version of Martial Arts 53
Jin Yong and his Wild Horse magazine 61
Who is Zhou Jun: Ni Kuang's "The Flower of Tribulation" and "Glass House" 69
Moonlight of the Old Times: The Writing Life of Dong Qiao's Generation 81
Survival between Reality and Ideals: Cai Haoquan's Erotic Magazine 89
Filmmakers' Secrets: Talking about the Two Universal Movies with the Same Name 97

Volume 2: Old Books of Stories about Banana Wind and Coconut Rain <br />Memories of Local Childhood in the 1950s: Children of the World 107
My Teaching Life: Nanyang Education before the 1950s 115
One Hundred Poems from the Japanese Occupation Period: Tan Shouhe's "Jinggong Ji" 125
Chapter Narrative of the Japanese Invasion of Malaya: Memorandum 137
Malayan political propaganda in the 1960s: Development Monthly 151
A bridge between Chinese and Malay culture: Lu Baiye's Malay Monthly 161

Volume 3: A Random Talk on the Chinese Characters of the Republic of China <br />History of Sexuality: Zhang Jingsheng and Erotic Novels 173
From the Miss Handbook to the West Wind Mailbox: Imagination and Reality of Women in the Republic of China 181
Feminism and the "Literary Reader" of Women in the Republic of China 193
Political Propaganda in the Republic of China: On the Pictorial Biography of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek 205
The Greatest Desire: The Republic of China's "Hundred Methods for Having a Child" 213
Lin Shuhua's new work discovery: an autobiographical diary of sweet talk 221

Appendix <br />Down the Rabbit Hole: Finding Alice 231
Two Traitors Rebelling Against the Nation: On Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao in Romance Novels 243