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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... meant that the line between public service and private practice was often blurred . What today would be deemed basic requirements for good practices were simply unaf- fordable in early colonial Hong Kong . The lack of officers with ...
... meant to be revived after the end of the Pacific War , but the arrangement fell by the wayside after 1945 , despite an attempt to revive it . Manpower shortages meant that new recruits could not be spared for two years ' full - time ...
... meant to be ' yes men ' but to do what they thought was right for the colony and its people , but this sometimes meant that mistakes were made . Herein lies an inherent source of job satisfaction for administrative officers . Ian ...
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Governance in a colonial society | 1 |
The cadet scheme | 13 |
Benevolent paternalism | 27 |
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