作者：Steve Tsang 曾銳生
出版社：Bloomsbury Publishing
出版年份：2024
語言：English
ISBN：9780755655847
 
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.

Demand for constitutional reform and a sense of Hong Kong Chinese identity grew only as the handover to China approached.This definitive history of the colourful individuals who administered the colony on behalf of the British government sheds light on two empires inextricably linked in nature and on the philosophy of government.

Author
 
Steve Tsang was born in Hong Kong and educated at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Oxford. After he completed his D.Phil. at St Antony's College, Oxford, his former teachers asked him to stay on to set up a research and archival project on Hong Kong prior to the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China in 1997. Hence, his early career and books focused on Hong Kong. Since then he has published widely on the politics, history, security, and international relations of Taiwan and China. He also developed an interest and expertise on how democracies should deal with transnational terrorism in the age of global terrorism. After spending nearly three decades at Oxford, latterly as Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, he left Oxford to take up the Chair of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham in 2011. He enjoys reading, walking with his wife and son, and encouraging students to challenge their teachers intellectually.
 
Table of Contents
 
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Preface

Chapter 1. Governance in a colonial society
Chapter 2. The cadet scheme
Chapter 3. Benevolent paternalism
Chapter 4. Effects of the Pacific War
Chapter 5. Expansion
Chapter 6. Meeting the challenges of a Chinese community
Chapter 7. Localization
Chapter 8. Meeting the challenges of modernity
Chapter 9. An elite within the government
Chapter 10. Inhibited elitism

Notes
References
Index