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Colonial Hong Kong in the eyes of Elsie Tu /
This is a book with strong messages for today. Mrs Tu's deep concerns about the current international scene have the most immediate and obvious topical relevance. But there is an equally strong lesson in her description of the corruption that used to be so pervasive in Hong Kong and her battles...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | HKUL book talk.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Autobiographical Note; 1 A First Taste of Hong Kong in the 1950s; 2 Hong Kong After the Second World War
- First Impressions of the Early Days; 3 The Municipal Councils of Hong Kong; 4 Hawkers as Prey to Corruption; 5 The Chronic Housing Problem; 6 The Housing-Policy Stimulus to Corruption; 7 The Trials and Tribulations of Registering a School; 8 Of Officials, Contractors and Triads; 9 Hong Kong-1960s Criminal Paradise; 10 Even the Legal System . . .; 11 Corruption Reaches out to Transport; 12 Two Summers of Discontent: 1966 and 1967; 13 Peter Godber Gives the Game Away.