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The Nixon Library, Yuen Long [1954-1977]

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Submitted by David on Thu, 2016-04-28 16:08
Current condition: 
Demolished / No longer exists
Date Place completed: 
c.1954-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1977-12-31 (Month, Day are approximate)

Thanks to IDJ for pointing out this article:

The First Nixon Library

Except for its name, there was little remarkable about the modest library that stood in the neighborhood of Yuen Long on the outskirts of Hong Kong from 1954 until 1977.

It held only a few thousand books and employed just one librarian, and its patrons were mostly schoolchildren, farmers, and shopkeepers. Nevertheless, the humble building was a monument to Richard Nixon.

Read more: http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2009/summer/nixon.html

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Submitted by tngan on Fri, 2016-04-29 12:02.

Hi David,

Found a blog entry about the library.  It is in Chinese though.   The National Archive entry focused more about Nixon himself but the blog entry talked a bit more about Tang Kin Sun instead.   The blog entry also mentioned an Nixon's unexpected visit to a  primary school (元朗商會小學, with photos).

T

 

Submitted by terewong on Mon, 2016-07-11 23:58.
Here the location of the first generation of the Nixon library, https://goo.gl/maps/NJHgiSuNDRx

Submitted by David on Tue, 2016-07-12 17:56.

Thanks for that, I've updated the marker's position.

Regards, David

Submitted by terewong on Mon, 2017-02-27 15:53.

there is another article about the consultant Snowpine LIU of this Yuen Long Nixon Library

http://blog.terewong.com/archives/18257
跑遊元朗 － 尼克遜圖書館顧問劉雪松

Submitted by gem on Thu, 2018-01-18 22:14.

Does anyone know (or perhaps remember) the names any of the books that were available? I read  in a SCMP article that 200 books were donated by USIS, and I'd be really interested to know the kind of books they tended to 'donate'.