That a brief history of MPH should start with a missionary may seem
strange, but it sets the motion to the train of events, that, eventually
led to the establishment of MPH.
In 1807, Robert Morrison was the first Protestant missionary sent by the
London Missionary Society to work in China. He translated the New
Testament and Old Testament into Chinese with the help of an eager young
missionary, William Milne. After being in Macau for two years, Milne
chose to set up a printing press in Malacca in 1815. Among his
achievements in his first few years there were to start up the Malacca
Anglo-Chinese College and print the first Chinese edition of the Old
Testament.
The Origins of MPH
In 1890, Captain W.G. Shellabear arrived in Singapore to establish a
printing press known as the Amelia Bishop Press. The aim of the
publishing venture was the printing of Christian literature, and
eventually, the setting and printing of secular work was taken up.
Amelia Bishop Press moved to Raffles Place in 1893 and changed its name
to the American Mission Press. The Book Room was established to sell
publications of the Mission Press, school books and other supplies for
the Mission’s schools.
Shellabear is recognised as the founder of the Malaya Publishing House
whose far sightedness in bringing modern printing techniques to
Singapore contributed to the growth of the Southeast Asian publishing
industry. Methodist Christians know him as one of the founders and early
leaders of Methodism in Malaya, and as a translator of the Bible and
many other religious texts into Malay. Among old Malay classics
reprinted by Shellabear include Sejarah Melayu and Hikayat Abdullah.
In 1900, Rev. William T. Cherry arrived and helped turn the foundations
built by Shellabear into a multi-faceted organisation - printing,
publishing, bookselling, and book distribution. The American Mission
Press changed name to the Methodist Publishing House in 1906, from which
the acronym MPH was derived.
It was in 1908 that the Methodist Publishing House moved into its new
building at the corner of Stamford Road and Armenian Street. The company
became a public stock company in 1927 with an experienced Board of
Directors and the Publishing House was officially incorporated as Malaya
Publishing House Limited.
In 1928, Frank Cooper Sands became the Managing Director of the new
Malaya Publishing House. The company was carrying on its business as
‘proprietors and publishers of and dealers in newspapers, journals,
magazines, books and other literary works and undertakings.’ Frank Sands
reopened the publishing house in 1945 after the Japanese occupation,
which left most of the printing equipment removed or destroyed, and the
building on Stamford Road badly deteriorated.
In 1963 the Malaya Publishing House changed its name to Malaysia
Publishing House and began operating as a wholesale book department. The
retail side, under the name of Malaysian Books Limited, had new
bookstores opening at Selangor Mansion in Kuala Lumpur, Beach Street in
Penang and at Jalan Laksamana in Malacca. At Stamford Road, the ground
floor was turned to general bookselling.
1966 saw the Malaysia Publishing House failing financially. The company
was bought over and set up under a consortium headed by Masagung, a
sixth-generation Chinese Indonesian. Under the new management, there
were 4 subsidiaries: MPH Books, MPH Printers, MPH Publications &
Lian Tak MPH (producing exercise books & paper products). Despite
its problems in the 1960s, the company continued to publish a range of
old and new titles.
In 1972, Jack Chia Holdings (Hong Kong) bought over MPH. As Jack
Chia-MPH Limited, its various subsidiaries were divided into the Books
and Publications Division, the Consumer Products Division, the Timber
Division, the Hotel Division and the Services Division. The Books and
Publications Division took on new activities like publication of
magazines.
The company was publicly listed and bought over in 1999 by Singaporean
entrepreneur Simon Cheong and changed its name to MPH Ltd in March 2000.
In 2002, the MPH brand with its book
retail and book distribution arm, MPH Bookstores and MPH Distributors
respectively, was bought over by a Malaysian company, Jalinan Inspirasi
Sdn Bhd. It is part of a large Malaysian conglomerate owned by Malaysian
businessman Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Albukhary. For the first time, MPH
becomes a wholly Malaysian-owned company.
Recently, the MPH Group restarted its printing and publishing arm; MPH
Group Printing and MPH Group Publishing respectively. Jalinan Inspirasi
is now known as the MPH Group, which owns MPH Bookstores (Malaysia and
Singapore), MPH Distributors (Malaysia and Singapore), MPH Group
Printing and MPH Group Publishing.
MPH Bookstores currently has 27 outlets in Malaysia: 17 in the Klang
Valley, 3 in Johor, 2 in Negeri Sembilan, 1 each in Perak, Pulau Pinang ,
Melaka, Kedah and Sarawak operating under the MPH Bookstores brand
name.
PS: Kalau tak paham sila guna gugel translate sendiri.
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