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Times of change : a memoir of Hong Kong's governance, 1950-1991 / by Eric Peter Ho.
Van Pelt Library JQ1539.5.A67 H6 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ho, Eric.
- Series:
- Social sciences in Asia 1567-2794 ; v. 4.
- Social sciences in Asia, 1567-2794 ; v. 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil service--China--Hong Kong--History--20th century.
- Civil service.
- Ho, Eric.
- Civil service--China--Hong Kong--Biography.
- History.
- Hong Kong (China)--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Hong Kong (China).
- China--Hong Kong.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 255 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Summary:
- A Hong Kong native who joined the expatriate dominated civil service of that territory, the author describes the institutional barriers he encountered. Prejudice and frustrations notwithstanding, he eventually reaches the top level of the service.
- Starting as an income tax assessor, Eric Ho worked successively in expenditure control, fisheries, external commercial relations, and communications between the government and the people. He emerges as policy coordinator for education, health, welfare and manpower services, and then returns to the trade and industry field. Next to this, he served on the Joint Liaison Group established under the Sino-British Agreement which returned Hong Kong to China.
- With its observations on changing attitudes and accounts of certain international negotiations, this book will be of interest to historians, scholars and the general reader.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Beginning (1941-1953) 1
- Chapter 2 Taxation and Finance (1954-1965) 9
- Chapter 3 Fisheries (1966-1968) 31
- Chapter 4 Almost Exclusively Textiles (1968-1973) 47
- Chapter 5 The People (1954-1976) 79
- Chapter 6 Social Services (1977-1983) 110
- Chapter 7 Return to Trade and Industry (1983-1987) 169
- Chapter 8 Keeping the Administration's Conscience (1987-1991) 209
- 3 List of Names with Chinese Characters 232
- 4 Romanisation of Chinese Phrases 236
- 5-13 Organisational Charts 237
- 14 Chart of HO Fook's Family 246.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004140476
- OCLC:
- 56672360
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