亨利．魏智及其北京法文圖書館

Henri Vetch and His French Bookstore Peking

亨利．魏智理應為二十世紀中國出版史所銘記，甚至在東西方文化交流中佔有一席之地。其接手後的北京法文圖書館兼有書店、出版社、私人圖書館、學術俱樂部等角色。在二十餘年的時間裡，從事書籍零售業務，出版過數十本經典漢學著作，為專業讀者提供不可或缺的書籍，更是北京地區高校、研究社團與西方漢學機構、出版社之間的紐帶，通過代購和代售的方式為兩方服務。本文透過日記、回憶錄、新聞報紙、通信集、已公開檔案、書刊實體等大量一手資料間的比對和分析，明確法文圖書館的成立時間、釐清津京兩地店面間的關係、再現其與中國圖書公司的離合、提出魏智接替其父成為法文圖書館經理的合理時間段，並全方位還原北京法文圖書館的內部結構與業務種類，將魏智近二十年的出版史呈現給今人。

Based on enormous firsthand materials as journals, memoirs, newspapers, correspondences, archives, bibliographies and books etc., this article tries to clarify some important aspects concerning Henri Vetch and his French Bookstore Peking such as when Henri Vetch took over his father Francis Vetch's La Librairie Francaise and established his own French Bookstore Peking, how its inner structure worked and what its major businesses covered. By doing so, the author tells the story of the French Bookstore Peking: how it had witnessed the vicissitudes of its time and its own, how it had contributed to the cultural exchange and communication between China and the West through its daily business activities such as book retails, consignments, purchases on demand, and publication of books on various aspects of China in English and other languages written by distinguished western sinologists and authors. In all, this article makes efforts to explore the publishing history of an individual-Henri Vetch from 1930 to 1953, whose publishing house, the French Bookstore Peking, served both for an academic club and a private library, and had played an active role in the cultural life of Beijing or even the whole China during that time.