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A lifetime in academia : an autobiography by Rayson Huang.
Rayson Huang began his studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1938. Thirty-four years later, in 1972, he became the University's first Chinese Vice-Chancellor and served in that position until 1986. He sat on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and on the Drafting Committee that formulated...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2011.
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| Edición: | Expanded 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1
- The Early Years: My Father and Munsang College; 2
- University Days and the Siege of Hong Kong; 3
- Into Free China as a Refugee: Life in Samkong and Kweilin; 4
- To Chungking: The War-time Capital; Institutions
- Plate Section; 5
- To England via India: Postgraduate Studies at Oxford; 6
- Post-Doctoral Training in Chicago; 7
- Starting a Career the Hard Way in Singapore; 8
- The Emergence of a Chinese University; Grace Huang
- Plate Section; 9
- A New University in a New Country.
- 10
- Nanyang University: The One and Only11
- Back to Alma Mater; 12
- Post-Retirement Activities; Rayson Huang
- Plate Section; Appendices; I
- Extracts from a Presidential Address to the General Assembly of the Association of South-East Asian Institutions of Higher Learning; II
- Nanyang University Convocation Address; III
- The Basic Purpose of Secondary Education: Address by the Vice-Chancellor to the 91st Congregation, the University of Hong Kong; IV
- Aspects of the Basic Law: Relationship between the Central Authorities and the Special Administrative Region; Glossary.