Hok Hoi Collection

The Hok Hoi Collection consists of some 34,600 volumes with over 1,900 titles of Chinese classics across the disciplines. They include works by famous Qing scholars like Chen Feng and Kang You-wei, and also valuable Kwang Dong editions of "13 Classics with Commentaries" and "Kwang Dong Tong Zhi". In addition to these rare books, the Hok Hoi Association published reference works such as catalogues as well as collections of lecture notes.

The Hok Hoi Association of Hong Kong was founded in 1923 with its aims to promote and lecture on Chinese classics. As the Association had to move out from its original address in Central, all the books were removed to the City Hall Public Library in 1963 for long-term preservation. The collection was then transferred to the Hong Kong Central Reference Library in 2001 for public consultation in the library.

A great deal of the collection is classical Chinese thread-sewn rare books with the most valuable ones being out-of-print books, manuscripts of Chinese classics, lecture notes and the Hok Hoi Collection catalogues. The books published by the Hok Hoi Association are also worth reading as they are of high academic standards. Readers are welcome to approach 9/F Hong Kong Central Reference Library for this invaluable collection.

Titles in the Hok Hoi Collection are searchable in the Online Public Access Catalogue.