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 before the ha...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hong Kong [China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
[2007]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 electronic text (xii, 229 pages) :) : illustrations, digital fil |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-222) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789882206069 |