Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the Nineteenth Century to the Handover to China, 1862-1997

by Steve Tsang

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845115252
• ISBN13: 9781845115258
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.5"