A Lifetime in Academia: An Autobiography by Rayson Huang, Expanded Second EditionHong Kong University Press, 2011年3月1日 - 260 頁 After receiving a classical Chinese primary and a bilingual secondary education in his father's school Rayson Huang entered the University of Hong Kong in 1938. The forty-eight years thereafter, except for two short intervals, were spent in studying, teaching, research, and/or administration in universities in Hong Kong, China, Britain, the United States, Singapore and Malaysia. The first of the two intervals, of about a year, came as a result of the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese in late 1941 when he moved, as a refugee, into Free China and after a spell of school teaching started his career in a university in Kweilin. The second interval, lasting some six months, was spent making his way by land, air, and sea via Chungking the war-time capital in China's hinterland, and India, to England to take up a scholarship awarded him by the Rhodes Trust at Oxford. The last seventeen years of his working life were taken up serving as vice-chancellor of Nanyang University, the controversial Chinese university in Singapore, and of Hong Kong University. This autobiography records Rayson Huang's diverse university experience of a half century. It also gives an account of the siege of Hong Kong and life in war-torn China and of two bodies on which he later served: the Legislative Council in Hong Kong and Beijing's Drafting Committee which formulated a Basic Law for the territory after its return to China in 1997. |
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Life in Samkong and Kweilin | 31 |
The Wartime Capital | 47 |
Institutions Plate Section
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Postgraduate Studies at Oxford | 57 |
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PostDoctoral Training in Chicago | 71 |
7 Starting a Career
the Hard Way in Singapore | 81 |
Grace Huang Plate Section
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A New University in a New Country | 101 |
The One and Only | 117 |
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Back to Alma Mater | 131 |
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PostRetirement Activities | 159 |
Rayson Huang Plate Section
| 175 |
Appendices | 176 |
Glossary | 203 |
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