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Governing Hong Kong : Administrative Officers from the Nineteenth Century to the Handover to China, 1862-1997 /
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 be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong [China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
2007
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Preface
- Governance in a colonial society
- The cadet scheme
- Benevolent paternalism
- Effects of the Pacific War
- Expansion
- Meeting the challenges of a Chinese community
- Localization
- Meeting the challenges of modernity
- An elite within the government
- Inhibited elitism
- Notes
- References
- Index.