Governing Hong Kong
Subtitle: administrative officers from the nineteenth century to the handover to China, 1862-1997
By: Steve Tsang
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hong Kong [China]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9789882206069; 9789622098749
Subjects: Government executives; Politics and government; Officials and employees
Other titles: Project Muse UPCC books.
Description: Hong Kong is at the heart of modern China&#x2019;s position as a regional - and potential world - superpower. In this important and original history of the region, Steve Tsang argues that its current prosperity is a direct by-product of the British administrators who ran the place as a colony before the handover in 1997.
Notes: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-222) and index.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Table of contents: title: Acronyms and abbreviations; title: Preface; title: Governance in a colonial society; title: The cadet scheme; title: Benevolent paternalism; title: Effects of the Pacific War; title: Expansion; title: Meeting the challenges of a Chinese community; title: Localization; title: Meeting the challenges of modernity; title: An elite within the government; title: Inhibited elitism; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index.