RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1973 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8910rj06r 102 CHUANG SHEN 2. Wang Yuan-ch'i £ß 3. Wang Yuan-ch'i 4. Wang Yuan-ch'i 5. Wang Chien £ 6. Wang Chien 7. Wang Hui 8. Fang Shih-shu 9. Hua Yen 華嵒 hanging scroll of the Fu-ch'un Mountain 富春山軸 hanging scroll of landscape executed in the style of Huang Kung-wang 黄公望 and Ni Tsan 倪瓒 handscroll of landscape in the style of former masters. Yün-ho sung-yin-t'u *** H , hanging scroll Ts'êng-luan-sung-ts'ui-t'u 翠圖 hanging scroll Hsia-k'ou tai-tu t'u #* album of landscape, figure and flower hanging screens of flower and bird 10. Wang Shih-min E 11. Liang Pei-lan 12. Ch'ien Tsai hanging scroll executed in the style of Huang Kung-wang hanging scroll of poems written in the running script hanging scroll of orchid and bamboo executed in ink monochrome Among the three different kinds of edition available today, no matter whether it is hand-written, or wood block printed, or type printed, all the texts in chuan 5 of this T'ing-fan-lou shu-hua-chi have left out ten items of painting and calligraphy; i.e., from the landscape album executed by the Sung and Yüan artists up to Ch'ing-chieh-t'u executed by Ch'ien Hsi-pai of the Sung dynasty. And similarly, all the texts in chuan 2 of the supplement of the same catalogue have omitted record of the 12 items of painting and calligraphy; i.e., from Wang Hui's hanging scroll executed in the style of Wang Meng up to Ch'ien Tsai's hanging scroll of orchid and bamboo executed in ink monochrome. For the same item of painting, the table of contents in this book lists its painter, its title as well as the format, and yet all these details have not been entered into the text. Such inconsistency cannot but be regarded as a shortcoming in compilation, the more so since this shortcoming arises not because of the difference in edition, but entirely due to the carelessness of the compiler. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1990 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/d79206299 316 and traditions that make men (and women) take to the profession of piracy. As it is the book is a "good read" in the sensational nineteen-twenties style of journalism, padded out with cuttings from the newspaper library. And the piracy which forms the main theme of the book is less the battle-boarding-bang-bang scenario of excitement and tension favoured by generations of schoolboys, than a roughly institutionalised form of "protection". You entered into "discussions" with fishing-junks to protect them from real pirates, in the same way as today's Hong Kong Triads contact a new shop or restaurant to "protect" them against burglars. Not that the nineteen-twenties lacked their share of genuine piratical drama. This was the decade of the inside operation, with villains booking passages on coastal and ocean-going ships and, once out of sight of land, storming the bridge and forcing the crews to steer to Bias Bay, where the cargo would be looted, and the passengers sometimes held to ransom. Of all the piracies that of the SS Sunning in November, 1926, was the most spectacular and interesting, because the officers not only fought against overwhelming odds, but actually recaptured the ship, although with heavy losses in dead and injured. All this against a background of well-defined Hong Kong colonial policy. The drill was simple. Any pirates caught in Hong Kong waters, if found guilty, were hanged. If the crimes were committed in Chinese waters it was up to the Mainland Chinese authorities to deal with them, and in the nineteen-twenties China was too occupied with war-lord politics and other problems to bother much with coastal piracy, which had anyway been a nuisance for centuries. In order to make contacts with the sea-going underworld the author paid many visits to Macau and was extraordinarily lucky in making contact with useful intermediaries. He lacks literary style but he is the kind of determined reporter every editor would like to have on hand for investigative purposes. In an effort (unsuccessful) to pursue useful contacts he even committed a minor crime and got himself locked up among the convicts in Hong Kong's Victoria Prison. Not surprisingly the pirates there had been found guilty not of piracy but lesser offences; had their real identity been revealed and proved they would have been doomed men. The gallows was a few yards outside author Lilius' cell. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1992 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/qf85tx75x 60 for many years. Neither refer to Wm Mesny, though Sam Couling in 1917 in his Encyclopaedia Sinica does run to a short paragraph describing in very round terms, the then still living Mesny. NOTE Tcheng Ki-tong. I have been unable to find the date of publication of his first edition of Les Chinois, Peints par Eux-meme; however, in the preface to the English seventh edition of Bits of China by Tcheng, published in English in London in 1890, Tcheng writes 'The friendly welcome accorded by the English Public to my Chinese Painted by Themselves has encouraged me to publish this translation of my last work, (from the French Les Plaisirs en Chine).' Mesny publishing this book crit as late as 1905 suggests an ulterior motive, perhaps no more than an instinctive urge to highlight yet again his tireless and tenacious claim to recognition as the foreign authority on things Chinese. Appendix B Chronology as claimed by William Mesny [Extracted from details within the Miscellanies] 9 October 1842 1847 Mesny born in Jersey ? 1850 1850-1854 1854 1860 December 1861 February 1861 1861-1862 1862 February March April 1862 May 1862 Dame School National School St Anne's, Alderney Left school Worked at brick making, stone cutting with a smithy and on Channel Island fortifications. He also worked in blasting and as an architect's assistant. Left home, went to sea and sailed to Africa, Australia and the Americas Arrived on the China coast and disembarked at Shanghai Left Shanghai for Hong Kong Romantic interlude with Huang family in Hong Kong where he bore the name of Huang Chin-fu 3rd Turnkey Hong Kong Gaol Returned to Shanghai aboard the SS Aden Travelled up the Yangtze and arrived at Hankow Master of the Hat Liang-wang on the Yangtze based in Shanghai, running the Taiping blockade: Wounded and captured by Imperial Chinese gunboats at Kuan Yin Shan on the Yangtze Rescued by the gunboat HMS Banterer and secured the release of Page 75 Page 76 ================================================================================