作者：Elsie Tu
出版社：HKU Press
出版年份：2003
語言：English
ISBN：9789622096066
 
Elsie Tu is well known as a social activist and crusader against injustice and corruption in Hong Kong. In this powerful personal statement, she expresses her views about the injustices in the past colonial system and her fears about present day economic colonialism.
 
This is a book with strong messages for today. Mrs Tu’s deep concerns about the current international scene have the most immediate and obvious topical relevance. But there is an equally strong lesson in her description of the corruption that used to be so pervasive in Hong Kong and her battles against it. She reminds us forcefully of the need for continued vigilance if corruption and its awful effects are not to return.
 
However, the most important message of this book pervades all parts of it: the example of a life devoted to improving things for the ordinary people of Hong Kong, a life not just lived according to high principles, but characterized by a dogged and fearless determination to fight for those principles, to be an activist.
This book is important because it records the beliefs, some of the experiences and above all the commitment of one of the most notable people of post-war Hong Kong. By giving rich insights into the mind and beliefs of an extraordinary and indomitable person, it brings to life the recent history of Hong Kong and challenges the next generation of Hong Kong people to contribute as much.
Readers may have heard of Hong Kong’s economic miracle during the second half of the twentieth century, but they may not be aware of the suffering and injustices caused by greed and corruption at that time. This book shows how the society’s struggle stirred the spirit of determination upon which the Hong Kong we know today was built.
 
The book will also give readers a bird’s eye view of the worldwide scale of suffering and injustices caused by nations seeking economic and political domination.
 
“I write this book because I believe that human beings can only comprehend the present when they understand the past, and they can only make a better future when they learn from previous errors. And I feel compelled to alert the younger generation of the dangers that confront the world today from those obsessed with wealth and power. I hope that all prejudices and evil ambitions can be set aside, and an equal playing field can be created for all nations.” —Elsie Tu
 
“With decidedly pro-grassroots sympathies, Mrs Tu is fiercely critical of British colonialism with its corruption, hypocrisy, malpractice, racist and pro-big business bias in pre-1997 Hong Kong. This book yields keen insights into and informed observations of government and community in colonial Hong Kong, often from a ring side, first-hand perspective.” —Professor Ming K. Chan, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
 
“Elsie Tu, a veteran activist and a former legislative councillor, told a fascinating story about post-World War II Hong Kong. Going through the volume, you will be amazed by the arrogance of the colonial officials, the rampart corruption in the Hong Kong government, the widespread influence of the triad, and the difficulties facing those living in the squatters and the resettlement estates in the 1950s and the 1960s. This book is indispensable for anyone who is interested in knowing about what Hong Kong was like before it was turned into an Asian little dragon.” —Professor Alvin Y. So, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
 
Table of Content
Preface
Autobiographical Note
 
PART 1 The Quest for Justice in Hong Kong
1. A First Taste of Hong Kong in the 1950s 
2. Hong Kong After the Second World War — First Impressions of the Early Days 
3. The Municipal Councils of Hong Kong
4. Hawker s as Prey to Corruption
5. The Chronic Housing Problem
6. The Housing-Policy Stimulus to Corruption
7. The Trials and Tribulations of Registering a School
8. O f Officials, Contractors and Triads
9. Hong Kong -1960s Criminal Paradis e
10. Even the Legal System ... 
11. Corruption Reaches out to Transport
12. Two Summers of Discontent: 1966 and 1967 
13. Peter Godber Give s the Game Away 
14. Is the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Succeeding in Its Mission?
15. Democracy in Hong Kong
16. Step-by-Step Democracy 
17. The Transitional Years in Hong Kong, 1992-9 7 
18. Hong Kong's Future After 2007 
19. Colonial Ignorance 
 
PART 2 What Happened to Democracy? 
20. Why Write About Democracy ?
21. What is Democracy? 
22. The Development of Democracy 
23. A Machiavellian Era 
24. The Imperialist Mind 
25. How Democratic Is a Stolen Country?
26. Economic Colonialism 
27. Fascism After the Second World War 
28. The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine 
29. Democracy Misinterpreted
30. A New Concept o f Democracy 
31. Voting Systems 
32. Quotation s on Democracy and Pseudo-Democracy 
 
Epilogue 
Appendices 
Appendix A 
Appendix B 
Appendix C 
Appendix D
Appendix E 
 
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