CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Papworth, John , 1995
2004年的一則
我所不知道的杜德橋教授 (Prof. Glen Dudbridge)和巨流出版社
在戴明顧問公司 www.deming.com.tw 網站，其中有代售巨流出版社的一些社會學方面的書之資訊。我1970s讀大學時，有一次讀一本翻譯的社會學，覺得很有意思。那時候，巨流出版社出是這方面出版的新秀。出版些書，我也是忠實讀者。
一下子，20年過去了，近十年前，吾友陳巨擘先生說主持人有意頂讓，我沒特別用心。再幾年（約1997），他問我說有沒興趣投資，我太太贊成。不過後來他找到更好的合作對象。
出版社經20餘年的累積，成績可觀，所以北京中華書局都曾打電話和email過來，希望合作。（陳先生也去過遼寧，談些合作事宜。）現在出書很穩定（更開拓些諸如學術性季刊等新路，陳先生夫婦的志業是「社會學」），每本書都還印創辦人熊先生的字樣。
再過兩年，我幫忙巨流出版社在台大附近找到現在的新辦公室，皆大歡喜。
前年，巨擘兄再婚。我常去大陸和越南當顧問，有一回去巨流出版社，他們多請了兩位編輯，其中一位還在豐泰公司做過事，所以我們多談了一下。
三年前，我發行過『閱讀逍遙奇境』，談些書，巨擘兄發現林先生談的某本書，正是他們想要的，就主動表示。又，我有位不曾見面的朋友送一本Small Is Powerful，我考慮過翻譯它，巨擘兄說當然只要我肯翻譯，他們就會出版。
John Papworth (Born London, England, 1921)
After being reared in an orphanage, the Reverend John Papworth has been at various times a baker, journalist, economist - London University graduate, ecologist, a self proclaimed 'futurist' and Church of England priest. He was under licence to officiate from the Bishop of London until his remarks about the non-sinfulness of shoplifting in giant stores attracted global media attention and caused him to be sacked from his non-stipendary post. (He was, he says, "concerned with the way the giants were destroying local community life" and argued, "Jesus taught we should love our neighbours" - he had said nothing about loving Marks & Spencers).
With the help of 'Fritz' E.F. Schumacher and Sir Herbert Read, he founded and edited Resurgence magazine (now edited by Satish Kumar). He has also been: a parliamentary Labour candidate, 1955; for nine years personal assistant to the then President of Zambia, Dr Kenneth Kaunda; consultant to Greenpeace; associate editor for The Ecologist magazine; President of The Academic Inn (a debating society), Leopold Kohr's ideal; founder of the Village Industry Service (Zambia); founder and editor of the Fourth World Review (for a world of "small nations, small communities and the inalienable sovereignty of the human spirit") a bi-monthly with an international circulation. In the Sixties he was imprisoned along with Bertrand Russell for anti-nuclear protests, and also was placed in Albany jail, Georgia, USA, for Civil Rights activities
He has starred in two BBC documentaries entitled 'No Man is an Island' and 'Turbulent Priest'. He has written the following books: 'The Economics of Humanism', 'New Politics', 'Small is Powerful', and 'Shut up and Listen'. His latest book is called 'Village Democracy'. Papworth's main political inspiration was the Austrian philosopher Leopold Kohr.
His international lecture tours promoting radical alternatives to current institutional approaches, have drawn capacity audiences. His French-born wife, Marcelle, died in 1995, and his children, Pierre, John-David and Marie, live in London.
He created village magazine Purton Today in 2004, a local ecological newsletter/magazine. The magazine contains his writing as well as contributions from local Purtonians, including Adam Crosland, Sid Walker and Duncan Butler.
He currently lives in Purton, Wiltshire.
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