作者： Hilton Cheong-Leen , Gary Cheung, Oliver Chou
出版社：World Scientific Publishing
出版年份：2022
語言：English
ISBN：9789811248382
 
Hilton Cheong-Leen was a legend in Hong Kong's history. It is no coincidence that his 34 years of public service witnessed the city's historic transformation from a regional entrepot to an international financial centre. He was a key player in that historic process and a visionary too in bringing about changes in a wide range of issues from politics to livelihood. He held firm in the belief that traditional Chinese values were applicable in the modern world and Hong Kong was a case he strived hard to prove the East-West compatibility. A businessman and a baritone, he knew the art of delivering ideas and principles. He upheld core values such as civic rights, wider political participation and social justice not through slogans but solid advice and practice in constitutional reform, education, hygiene, housing, transportation, arts, to name just a few.
 
Based on original research and primary sources, including interviews with Cheong-Leen during his last years, this book covers his early years in British Guyana and his subsequent public service as lawmaker, urban councillor, plus a dozen of titles. The account documents the many footprints he left in the city's phenomenal economic takeoff since the 1970s. His contribution had once earned him the title as the "Mayor" of Hong Kong when he was elected in 1981 as the first Chinese chairman of the Urban Council since its inception almost a century ago.
 
Co-authored by award-winning writers Gary Cheung and Oliver Chou, Cheong-Leen's memoir provides a vivid account of his journey as a member of the global Chinese diaspora in the 20th Century, and details of his three-decade long public service. It is an extraordinary story of a man whose paths took him through relocation, war, settlement, hard work and success.
 
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Gary Cheung has been a journalist since the early 1990s. He worked as a reporter at Sing Tao Daily, Overseas Chinese Daily, Yazhou Zhoukan and South China Morning Post, covering fields ranging from politics, education, and integration between Hong Kong and mainland China. He became assistant editor-in-chief of Ming Pao in 2017. He is currently senior correspondent of the South China Morning Post. He is author of Hong Kong's Watershed: The 1967 Riots (Hong Kong University Press, 2009) and its Chinese edition 《六七暴動：香港戰後歷史的分水嶺》 (Hong Kong University Press, 2012). The Chinese edition won the Hong Kong Book Prize co-organised by RTHK and the Hong Kong Publishing Federation in 2013.
 
Oliver Chou is a music historian and author. He holds a PhD in music history from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and served as an advisor to Radio Television Hong Kong, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Hong Kong Book Fair. He was associate director of Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at HKU, and programme director at HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education, and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing. At present he is a member of the advisory committee of the School of Music at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
 
As a writer, Dr Chou is the author of award-winning History of Central Philharmonic Orchestra (1956–1996), published first in Hong Kong (2009) and then in Beijing (2013). His biography on maestro Yan Huichang, artistic director of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, received critical acclaim after its 2013 publication in Hong Kong and China. In 2015, he won a research grant and published in 2017 Music in a Bygone Era: Music Development in Hong Kong 1930s–1950s. The book was named a top ten music headline as well as a top ten publication in Hong Kong for 2017. His latest book on conducting Chinese orchestras, which is a pioneer work in the music literature, was also a top music headline of the year. Books aside, he writes regularly on arts and culture in major media including the South China Morning Post and Ming Pao Monthly. He also hosts columns on music in Yazhou Zhoukan, Ta Kung Pao and Hi-Fi Review. In 2010, the Hong Kong Government conferred him with a medal and a certificate of commendation for "making outstanding contributions to the development of arts and cultural activities".