70 years ago - A page from the past!

[route]

oh my, a book thats as old as my granny
thanks for sharing mrtree, care to pm me which online site did u bought the book from ? anymore stocks?
thanks!

[johannes]

hey mike...nice paintings... !! love them!

[CK Yeo]

In case anyone looking for it, you can find it on Amazon.com at very reasonable prices. The earliest edition I could find was the 2nd edition published in 1935. There are later editions at even more reasonable prices.

http://www.amazon.com/Exotic-Aquariu...694348&sr=1-49

ck

[MrTree]

yeah, i checked the price online and even tried to bargain but failed.

the previous owner of my copy is an old professor from Shanghai Fisheries University.

[900801]

nice,thanks for sharing

[MrTree]

I managed to get a badly damaged copy of the Chinese version of Exotic Aquarium Fishes!!!!! WOW!!

Published in 1939! Damn Japanese controlled the city in 1937...so this is a book published during that special time.

Shanghai in 1930s was the third biggest city in the world after New York and London. It's the economic center of far east back then, more developed than the capital Beijing. Tokyo was recovering from the earth quake, Hong Kong was still catching up...

I think the cover was missing...



This Li Yu Shu is probably the relative of Ba Jin(巴金).

[MrTree]

advertisement in the book!!!!!!



sail fin molly!!



Universal Tropics! translate like that?? haha



see the monkeys..and bird food containing rich vitamins!!

[MrTree]

So there goes the text..



Danio! other than the first few chapter about how to keep fish, only listed 30 species from the original version!



Harlequin rasbora!



locality translation sala!

[MrTree]

See the chinese name of dwarf gouramy...



Discus!



This translation is even more funny! "Catch Insect Fish"!



Maybe these 30 species were imported into China that's why the author picked them.

[MrTree]

The last page...



see the price! 5 bucks!!!!!! primary school teacher's minimum month salary was about 30 bucks then!!

normal worker in shops earning something from 10 to 30 bucks per month....

it was definitely a hobby meant for upper class...