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Sir Robert Ho Tung

Author : May Holdsworth
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888754246
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Sir Robert Ho Tung written by May Holdsworth and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Robert Ho Tung (1862–1954) is a compelling figure in Hong Kong history. He is regularly portrayed as the colony’s greatest philanthropist and wealthiest man of his day, the first Chinese to live on the Peak, and, at the end of his life, the ‘Grand Old Man of Hongkong’. The illegitimate son of a Chinese mother and European father, he was highly sensitive about his mixed heritage though he consistently made the most of his fate. He was a man perfectly in tune with his place and time, his success driven as much by his entrepreneurial talents as by his being Eurasian. This book shows him in all his immense variety—clerk with the Imperial Maritime Customs, chief compradore of Jardine Matheson, financial wizard, husband and lover, patriarch of a large family of five sons and eight daughters, loyal British subject but also, paradoxically, Chinese patriot. China’s president Yuan Shikai awarded him the Order of the Excellent Crop, and King George V knighted him. May Holdsworth’s thoughtful and deftly written account of the life is the first full-length biography in English. Given unique and unprecedented access to family and personal papers, including letters, diaries, notes, and photographs, she offers a nuanced perspective on a public but also private man. Her book will be a rich resource for historians and general readers interested in the men and women who played a key part in the shaping of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Hong Kong. ‘With painstaking research using an invaluable cache of private letters, family photographs, and other rarely seen archival materials, May Holdsworth has produced a definitive English-language biography of Hong Kong’s Grand Old Man, Sir Robert Ho Tung, as both public figure and private man. A must-read for anyone interested in Hong Kong history.’ —Emma J. Teng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘This biography of Sir Robert Ho Tung is well written, well organized, and based on original unpublished documentary sources that have not been previously utilized. Though of a scholarly nature, it is eminently readable and should appeal to a broad readership, including lovers of Hong Kong history.’ —Edward J. M. Rhoads, University of Texas at Austin

Clara Ho Tung, a Hong Kong Lady

Author : Irene Cheng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Clara Ho Tung, a Hong Kong Lady written by Irene Cheng and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945

Author : Geoffrey Charles Emerson
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622098800
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945 written by Geoffrey Charles Emerson and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945: Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley tells the story of the more than three thousand non-Chinese civilians: British, American, Dutch and others, who were trapped in the British colony and interned behind barbed wire in Stanley Internment Camp from 1942 to 1945. From 1970 to 1972, while researching for his MA thesis, the author interviewed twenty-three former Stanley internees. During these meetings, the internees talked about their lives in the Stanley Camp during the Japanese occupation. Long regarded as an invaluable reference and frequently consulted as a primary source on Stanley since its completion in 1973, the study is now republished with a new introduction and fresh discussions that recognize later work and information released since the original thesis was written. Additional illustrations, including a new map and photographs, as well as an up-to-date bibliography, have also been included in the book.

中國婦女傳記詞典

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Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765618276
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book 中國婦女傳記詞典 written by and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Edge of Empires

Author : John M. CARROLL
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029232
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Edge of Empires written by John M. CARROLL and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edge of Empires, Carroll situates Hong Kong squarely within the framework of both Chinese and British colonial history, while exploring larger questions about the meaning and implications of colonialism in modern history.

The Capitalist Dilemma in China's Cultural Revolution

Author : Sherman Cochran
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942242727
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Capitalist Dilemma in China's Cultural Revolution written by Sherman Cochran and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can capitalists' motivations during a Communist revolution be reliably documented and fully understood? Up to now, the answer to this question has generally eluded scholars who, for lack of nonofficial sources, have fallen back on Communist governments' official explanations. But the essays in this volume confirm that, at least in the case of the Communist revolution in China, it is finally possible to make new and fresh interpretations. By focusing closely on individuals and probing deeply into their thinking and experience, the authors of these essays have discovered a wide range of reasons for why Chinese capitalists did or did not choose to live and work under communism. The contributors to this volume have all concentrated on the dilemma for capitalists in China's Communist revolution. But their approach to their subject through archival research and rigorous analysis may also serve as a guide for future thinking about a variety of other historical figures. This approach is well worth adopting to explain how any members of society (not only capitalists) have resolved comparable dilemmas in all revolutions—the ones in China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, or anywhere else.

Present Day Impressions of the Far East and Prominent and Progressive Chinese at Home and Abroad

Author : W. H. Morton Cameron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Present Day Impressions of the Far East and Prominent and Progressive Chinese at Home and Abroad written by W. H. Morton Cameron and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Society

Author : David Faure
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622093930
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Society written by David Faure and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book puts together historical documents that illustrate the lives and concerns of Hong Kong people through a century and a half of colonial rule. It describes not only the ideals of the elite, but also the harsh realities of life faced by the majority, who until recent years lived under considerable poverty. It documents changes in standards of living, housing conditions, family life, communal organization and political aspirations. This account of Hong Kong's social history as Hong Kong people lived it summarizes the predicaments of people who chose to live in Hong Kong.

Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture

Author : Kay Li
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319410032
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture written by Kay Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings. With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the digital space, Li relates the global impact of not only what Chinese lenses can reveal about Shaw's world, but how intercultural and interdisciplinary readings can shed new light on familiar and obscure works alike.

Multiracial Britishness

Author : Vivian Kong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009202944
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Multiracial Britishness written by Vivian Kong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how British subjects of different 'races' collectively shaped what it means to be British today, focusing on 1910-45 Hong Kong.

The University of Hong Kong

Author : Bernard Mellor
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622090230
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The University of Hong Kong written by Bernard Mellor and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1981-03-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Hong Kong is one of Hong Kong’s largest single community enterprises. First incorporated as a self-governing body of scholars by the University Ordinance of 1911 its first faculties were formed from the Hong Kong College of Medicine founded in 1887. The growth and development of the University to its present internationally-recognized status is a continuing process, but the Council of the University has commissioned the writing and publication of this informal account as a sort of Festschrift for the first seventy years of its existence. After these years of vicissitude, including a complete break in its formal existence during the six years of 1942-47, it has emerged as one of the most influential single forces in the long process of creating an intellectual and cultural identity for the territory of Hong Kong.

Chinese Family Business and the Equal Inheritance System

Author : Victor Zheng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135172145
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Family Business and the Equal Inheritance System written by Victor Zheng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book disputes the traditional argument that the equal inheritance system hinders the growth of Chinese family business, approaching this not only in terms of economic capital, but also in terms of human capital such as education and leadership, and social networks. Zheng argues that most of the family business patriarchs only focus on the passing on economic capital, but give little attention to human capital and social capital when the come to the stage to transfer control to the next level. It further elaborates that the equal inheritance system itself isn’t the destructive force that weakens family business competitiveness, but can assist economic development by generating dynamism and capital. Based on extensive primary research, the work discusses how equal division encourages sibling comparison, analysing how such comparisons initially generate stress and anxiety but will ultimately galvanize competition, benefiting the business. The author also assesses how family division can offer initial economic human and social capitals that can motivate siblings to start their own businesses and be free from the subjugation sometimes associated with a family firm. Through the evaluation of these issues the book argues that the equal inheritance system can be regarded as the origin of the self-employment mentality, which not only fosters the growth of Chinese family business by plays crucial role in promoting economic development. Providing a valuable contribution to the field, this work will be of great interest to all scholars of Chinese and Asian business.

Macau

Author : Derrick Fludd
Publisher : Global Image Books
ISBN 13 : 1621542238
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Macau written by Derrick Fludd and published by Global Image Books. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Macau by Global Image Books does not just look at hotels and Casino's but is meant to provide an historical context for those wishing to visit or simply learn more about Macau. Historical sights covered in this volume include: A-Ma Temple, Ruins of St. Paul's, Ruins of St. Paul's Sacred Art Museum, Fisherman's Wharf, Grand Prix Museum, Macau Wine Museum, Sun Yat-Sen Park, St. Domingo's Church, Monte Fort, The Museum of Macau, Leal Senado Square, Leal Senado Building, St. Lawrence's Church, St. Joseph's Seminary & Church, St. Augustine's Square, Sir Robert Ho Tung Library, St. Augustine's Church, St. Anthony's Church, Casa Garden, Guia Fortress (including Guia Chapel and Lighthouse), Cathedral, Protestant Cemetery, History Museum of Taipa & Coloane, Our Lady of Carmel, Taipa Houses Museum, Tin Hau Temple Taipa. As well as interactive maps for buses around Macau, Casino's and more. This book really explores Macau's interesting and diverse culture. You can also count on updates to the volume as we continue to document and explore Macau, aiming to completely document Macau in its entirety from a historical point of view.

Rights and Urban Controversies in Hong Kong

Author : Betty Yung
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819912725
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Rights and Urban Controversies in Hong Kong written by Betty Yung and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the “ethics in relation to city and urbanism” by evaluating the strengths and limitations of rights as a conceptual tool from the comparative East–West perspective in resolving urban controversies (involving conflicts of rights between different classes, different groups within the present generation, present vs future generations, human vs animals, human vs plants and nature), thereby facilitating urban policy-making and good urban governance. This book adopts an interdisciplinary approach integrating political theory, ethics, urban studies, public policy, making applications of ethics and political philosophy to social sciences to examine controversial urban issues in the Hong Kong context. It challenges the general conception that philosophy and ethics are detached from everyday life, with the philosophers engaging mainly in abstract intellectual pursuit and some of them even disdaining “pedestrian” applications of abstract thinking. This book makes applications of ethics and political philosophy to real-life urban contexts in Hong Kong, thereby trying to highlight the normative in order to throw new light to the general approach and strategy to deal with practical urban issues, facilitating “out-of-the-box” thinking in the field of housing and urban studies, stimulating scholars, researchers, and students in the fields, urban planners, urban managers, and other professionals as well as urban policy-makers.

Millard's Review of the Far East

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Millard's Review of the Far East written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 34 includes "Special tariff conference issue" Nov. 6, 1925.

The China Weekly Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The China Weekly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Merchants' Daughters

Author : Helen F. Siu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083481
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Merchants' Daughters written by Helen F. Siu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Historians and anthropologists have long been interested in South China where powerful lineages and gendered hierarchies are juxtaposed with unorthodox trading cultures, multi-ethnic colonial encounters, and market-driven consumption. The divergent paths taken by women in Hong Kong and Guangdong during thirty years of Maoist closure, and the post-reform cross-border fluidities have also gained analytical attention.