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Verlag: The Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts, 2006
ISBN 10: 9889943808ISBN 13: 9789889943806
Anbieter: Masalai Press, Oakland, CA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 181 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. Béthanie 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 The text is extensively illustrated with previously unpublished historic photographs from the French Mission archives in Paris, and contemporary images by renowned architectural photographer Virgile Simon Bertrand. Béthanie 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.