Governing Hong Kong
Administrative Officers from the Nineteenth Century to the Handover to China, 1862-1997
Tsang, Steve
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BOOK SUMMARY
Hong Kong is at the heart of modern Chinas 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 administ
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Hong Kong is at the heart of modern China’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. The British administration of Hong Kong uniquely derived its practices from the best traditions of Imperial Chinese government and its philosophical, Confucian basis. It stressed efficiency, honesty, fairness, benevolent paternalism and individual freedom. The result was a hugely successful colony, especially in industry and finance, and it remains so today with its new status of Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China. This definitive history of the colorful individuals who administered the colony on behalf of the British government sheds light on two empires inextricably linked in nature and philosophy of government.
AUTHOR BIO
Steve Tsang is Louis Cha Fellow and University Reader in Politics at St Antonys College, Oxford University. He served as Director of the Asian Studies Centre at Oxford from 1997 to 2003 and is the author of A Modern History of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: An Appointment with China and The Cold War's Odd Couple, both published by I.B.Tauris.
BOOK REVIEWS
"An indispensable work for reference as well as for inspired historical interpretation." -- Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin
"Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, Governing Hong Kong is an example of original, detailed yet stimulating historical scholarship at its best." -- Anthony Kirk-Greene, St Antonys College, Oxford
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1845115252
ISBN(13-digit): 9781845115258
Dewey Decimal: 951
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 227
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