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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... Civil Service in Hong Kong with an efficient staff of Interpreters and also to afford the Government an opportunity of selecting for some of the higher appoint- ments as they become vacant Gentlemen acquainted with the Chinese language ...
... civil service reforms in Britain and British India in the 1850s , there was a feeling in Britain that it was more important to reform the civil service in India than in Britain , even though Britain's service was in a worse state than ...
... civil service and its senior admin- istrative officers was maintained partly because of bureaucratic inertia and entrenched practices . But it was above all because it was essential to ensure a smooth transition of Hong Kong from a ...
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Governance in a colonial society | 1 |
The cadet scheme | 13 |
Benevolent paternalism | 27 |
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