Times Of Change
Subtitle: A Memoir Of Hong Kong's Governance 1950-1991 (Social Sciences in Asia)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9789004140479
Subjects: Biography: general; Central government; c 1945 to c 1960; c 1960 to c 1970; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; Civil service; Biography / Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Hong Kong; Biography/Autobiography; Ethnic Studies - General; General; Interior Design - General; Personal Memoirs; 20th century; Biography; China; History
Description: "A Hong Kong native who joined the expatriate dominated civil service of that territory, the author describes the institutional barriers he encountered. Prejudice and frustrations notwithstanding, he eventually reaches the top level of the service." "Starting as an income tax assessor, Eric Ho worked successively in expenditure control, fisheries, external commercial relations, and communications between the government and the people. He emerges as policy co-ordinator for education, health, welfare and manpower services, and then returns to the trade and industry field. Next to this, he served on the Joint Liaison Group established under the Sino-British Agreement which returned Hong Kong to China." "With its observations on changing attitudes and accounts of certain international negotiations, this book will be of interest to historians, scholars and the general reader."--BOOK JACKET.