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Macao Public Library house a collection of approximately 40,000 rare books, including Chinese and Western texts published before 1950 which are located at the Sir Robert Ho Tung Library and the Senado Library. The ‘Chinese Ancient Books Chamber’ (a rare- collections building) at Sir Robert Ho Tung Library currently has some 20,000 Chinese rare books, of which 16 are precious rare books from the Jiaye Book Library Tower previously collected by renowned modern bibliophile Liu Chenggan. Among these 16 books, the Manuscript of Siku Quanshu’s Synopsis by Weng Fanggang is of intrinsic value. Moreover, the Senado Library houses a collection of approximately 20,000 foreign ancient texts, varying from the 16th to 20th Century historical documents of the Portuguese presence in the Far East to literature of Portugal’s policy in its overseas colonies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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《國文教科書》Livro para Ensino da Literatura Nacional: Kuok Man Kau Fo Shu
Issue 114
Title of Book / Newspaper / Magazine / Audiovisual Material:《國文教科書》Livro para Ensino da Literatura Nacional: Kuok Man Kau Fo Shu
Author:Traduzido em Portuguez por Pedro Nolasco da Silva
Publishing House:Macau: Typ. Mercantil de N. T. Fernandes e Filhos, 1912
Shelving Location: Macao Central Library
Introduction:

Livro para Ensino da Literatura Nacional(本書中文書名:《國文教科書》)第二冊的〈導言〉裡,伯多祿介紹他所譯的《最新國文教科書》的緣起。《最新國文教科書》原是一套十冊的中國小學生課本,每冊有60課,由居於上海的一群有識之士所編寫。這套課本曾獲清政府學部審定;為此,上海、香港、廣東、澳門等地的學校普遍使用。筆者比較伯多祿所翻譯的《最新國文教科書》,內容與1904年上海商務印書館出版的《最新國文教科書》完全吻合。

清末取消科舉,隨著近代西學東漸,各種新式學堂陸續興辦。在西方教科書的啟示下,中國人開始編寫不同於傳統教本的近代教科書。始建於1897 年的商務印書館在1902年,由高鳳謙、張元濟、蔣維喬、莊俞等所編的《最新教科書》漸次出版。編者從兒童的特點出發,規定各課文字筆劃由簡到繁,字數由少到多;如第一冊的五課以前限定六畫,十課以前限定九畫,以後逐漸加至十五畫為止;每課生字也有限制,選用的字限於日常通用字。其體裁和內容設置具有綜合性,分知識傳授、道德教育、智力訓練和文學薰陶等主題。教科書正文皆用楷體字,加入插圖,增強了教科書的易讀性和趣味性。該書分若干課,每星期教授一課( 計兩小時),可供半年之用。這種按學期制度編輯的方法,開了中國學校用書之新記錄。

澳門公共圖書館管理廳屬下的澳門資料室收藏了《國文教科書》第一、第二冊的葡文譯本,而何東圖書館則收藏了一套10冊(1904-1914),部份插有彩圖的《最新國文教科書》,可供讀者比較中葡兩個版本的特色。