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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Senado Library houses a collection of approximately 20,000 foreign ancient texts, varying from the 16th to 20th Century historical documents of the Portuguese presence in the Far East to literature of Portugal’s policy in its overseas colonies.

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Issue 124

Title of Book / Newspaper / Magazine / Audiovisual Material：The peoples and politique of the Far East : travels and studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and Malaya

Author：Henry Norman

Publishing House：London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1895

Shelving Location： Senado Library

Introduction：

Henry Norman（1858 - 1939）為英籍記者，支持自由主義的一位重要政治家，退休後他到世界各地旅遊考察，1915年被封為男爵。The peoples and politics of the Far East : travels and studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and Malaya全書分11章30節，記載了他四年內到英、法、西、葡等國的殖民地和西伯利亞、中國、日本、韓國、暹羅及馬來亞的考察。在序言中他提到，他每到一處都與當地居民以及當地代表人物會面，爭取客觀的信息，避免因為倉卒的印象而寫出錯誤的報道。

在第13 至20 節的內容裡，他以當年（約1890 -1894）西方列強的視角，講述一個積弱腐敗無能的晚清政府。他對中國人民、科舉制度、中國審判訴訟、中外關係都有具體的批判。在“在遠東的葡萄牙”一章（第183至192頁），載有他對澳門這個“東方蒙地卡羅”賭城的評論。本書還插有4張地圖和60張照片插圖，可為讀者提供珍貴的歷史見證。