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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Main Author: Tsang, Steve Yui-Sang, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, [2007]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
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