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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... ensure a good promotion prospect for themselves by petitioning the secretary of state that they had ' a preferential claim ' to senior offices that became vacant to officers transferred from outside Hong Kong . As with their claim to be ...
... ensure a smooth transition of Hong Kong from a crown colony to a Chinese SAR . It was intended to enable the civil service as a whole to continue to serve Hong Kong to its best ability regardless of the impending change of sovereignty ...
... ensure that the provision of a pension to retired local and expatriate officers would be protected despite a change of sovereignty in 1997 . The decision to promote local officers in preference to expatriate officers started in 1987 and ...
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Governance in a colonial society | 1 |
The cadet scheme | 13 |
Benevolent paternalism | 27 |
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