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Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the Nineteenth Century to the Handover to China, 1862-1997

Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the Nineteenth Century to the Handover to China, 1862-1997

Tsang, Steve

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Colonial History

Chinese HistoryGeneral Political ScienceBritish History

ISBN10: 1845115252
ISBN13: 9781845115258
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 1 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.02 Width: 7.02 Depth: 9.53
Language: English

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. Under British imperial administration, Hong Kong grew from a collection of fishing villages to an international entrepot, an industrial power and an international financial centre. British and Chinese interests dovetailed and the Chinese population was satisfied by the welfare reform and economic advancement perpetuated by Britain's administrative officers.

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