Hong Kong’s First Chinese Language Newspaper
The Chinese Serial is the first Chinese newspaper published monthly by Ying Wah College in binding-book style. In its last issue in May 1856, the Chinese Serial reported the modern Western technology products, the illuminating lighthouses and steam vessels, with diagrams and illustrations. The expression “燈塔” (which means Light-Tower or lighthouse) was first introduced in this issue and continued to be used and disseminated in nowadays Chinese community. Since the era of Baku