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Bethanie and Nazareth French Secrets from a British Colony (Hong Kong Academy for Peforming Arts) Hardcover - 2007

by Le Pichon, Alain.


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-144) and index.

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History / Hong Kong

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Bethanie is one of the notable historical buildings of Hong Kong, built by the French Missionary Fathers in 1875, it was used by them until 1974. It gradually deteriorated until 2006 when it was carefully restored and converted for use by the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. This book is a lavishly illustrated history of this notable building and its missionary occupants.

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  • Title Bethanie and Nazareth French Secrets from a British Colony (Hong Kong Academy for Peforming Arts)
  • Author Le Pichon, Alain.
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing o
  • Publisher Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong
  • Date February 15, 2007
  • ISBN 9789889943806
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Cultural Region: French

About the author

Alain Le Pichon was born and educated in France. After graduating from the Ecole Normale Suprieure at St Cloud, he went on to teach at Eton. He then joined an English merchant-bank in the City and later on Wall Street. He now lives in Hong Kong and Paris and teaches British History at the Sorbonne. He has written extensively on British traders in the East. His recent China Trade and Empire was published by Oxford University Press for the British Academy. It is the first edition of letters written during the period 1825-1843 by the founders of Jardine, Matheson & Co. This latest work - Bthanie and Nazareth French Secrets from a British Colony - recalls the presence and activities of the French missionaries in Hong Kong. It adds a colourful chapter in the history of foreigners' contributions to the development of Hong Kong.
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New York: The Hong Kong Academy For Performing Arts. 2006. Hard cover. New in new dust jacket.. 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.
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