鲍耀明先生自称谓“一介商人”,但五六十年代,于香港文学界涉足甚深,曾参与编辑同人刊物《热风》,和曹聚仁、徐讠于都是很要好的朋友。后被聘为加拿大多伦多大学客座教授。1960年初,开始与周作人建立通信联系,往来通信达八百余通。周作人曾将自己的大量手稿、签名本著译、诗幅 Mr. Bao Yaoming himself claimed to be “a merchant” but in the fifties and sixties he was involved in Hong Kong literary circles. He had been involved in editing his peer publication Hot Air, and Cao Ju-jen and Xu Huan were very good friends. After being hired as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. At the beginning of 1960, he started to establish communication with Zhou Zuoren, and the communication between the two reached over 800. Zhou Zuoren had his own large number of manuscripts, signed in the translation, poetry