Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the 19th Century to the Handover to China, 1862-1997Bloomsbury Academic, 2007年10月24日 - 240 頁 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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... Cowperthwaite left his mark mainly in institutionalizing the principles that governed Hong Kong's public finances during the decade when he was financial secretary ( 1961-71 ) . He was a man of integrity , a Scot ' from the Adam Smith ...
... Cowperthwaite's approach was revealed in handling the govern- ment's financial commitment to building the first tunnel to link the island to Kowloon under Victoria Harbour after several false starts . At first he took the position that ...
... Cowperthwaite was one of the most able financial secretaries British Hong Kong had had and could rank among the gods in the assessment of some of his former colleagues , he was not infallible . His and the Hong Kong government's ...
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Governance in a colonial society | 1 |
The cadet scheme | 13 |
Benevolent paternalism | 27 |
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