Bethanie & Nazareth – French Secrets from a British Colony (Hong Kong Academy for Peforming Arts) - Hardcover

Le Pichon, Alain

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ISBN 10: 9889943808 ISBN 13: 9789889943806

Verlag: Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 2006

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"Alain's prose is spiced with vignettes of the missionary Fathers and the idiosyncrasies of missionary life. He illuminates their personalities with amusing anecdotes and quotations from letters written home to France, while the broader history of Asia un "What a wonderful journey with my confr res in the early days of Hong Kong! Many thanks to Alain Le Pichon for his time-consuming historical research." - Fr Emile Louis Tisserand, Missions trang res de Paris in Hong Kong "It is a masterpiece by both a scholar and an artist. Prof. Le Pichon has spared no effort in researching the history of B thanie and the people working there. His artistic way of presenting the subject is admirable." - Fr Louis Ha, Archivist, Catholic Di

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Bethanie and Nazareth are two of Hong Kong's best-kept secrets. Now for the first time, the fascinating stories of these former French Mission foundations are brought to life by historian Alain Le Pichon. The text is extensively illustrated with previously unpublished historic photographs from the French Mission archives in Paris, and contemporary images by renowned architectural photographer Virgile Simon Bertrand. Bethanie was Hong Kong's first sanatorium. Built by the French Mission in 1875, it operated for a century on a hilltop surrounded by dairy pastures at Pokfulam. Nazareth, its sister building nearby, became the French Mission's linguistic and printing headquarters in Asia, publishing thousands of titles in dozens of Asian languages between 1894 and 1956.

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• Verlag: Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9889943808
• ISBN 13: 9789889943806
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200