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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tsang, Steve Yui-Sang, 1959-
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, 2007
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Government executives > China > Hong Kong.
Hong Kong (China) > Politics and government.
Hong Kong (China) > Officials and employees.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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