從南來到國際化: 香港的漢籍流傳、整理與收藏史

This paper attempts to examine the situation of the Chinese classics collection in the universities of Hong Kong through the historical texts of literati’s dairies, library archives and newspaper reports. These collections can explain how Hong Kong became the cultural center of south-coming scholars and shelter of world war II in the 20th century to protect the valuable book collections from mainland China. Besides that, this paper also explains how the libraries of Hong Kong universities to demonstrate these book collections in the international academia through the library systematic and digitalized development. In all, this paper will elaborate how the history of book collection and circulation in Hong Kong can provide new perspective in the academia to examine the relationship between history of reading and book collection.