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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... Young was disappointed because he saw such an attitude in terms of apathy . He wanted to win over their loyalty to British Hong Kong in the face of Chinese irredentism , which was why he was keen to give them a genuine say in the ...
... Young's replacement by Grantham turned out to be far more significant than anyone expected at the time . It both applied a brake to Young's attempt at constitutional reform and changed the admin- istration's basic outlook . " It took ...
... Young retired . 67 With Once Heathcote - Smith had proved his worth in the administration , Grantham never insisted on Young's original conditions being met . This was despite the fact that Heathcote - Smith's relationship with Colonial ...
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Governance in a colonial society | 1 |
The cadet scheme | 13 |
Benevolent paternalism | 27 |
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