A lifetime in academia : an autobiography / Rayson Huang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huang, Rayson, 1920-2015.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--China--Hong Kong--Biography.

College teachers.

Huang, Rayson, 1920-2015.

Huang, Rayson.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 168 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aberdeen, Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After receiving a classical Chinese primary and a bilingual secondary education in his father's school Rayson Huang entered the University of Hong Kong in 1938. The forty-eight years thereafter, except for two short intervals, were spent in studying, teaching, research, and/or administration in universities in Hong Kong, China, Britain, the United States, Singapore and Malaysia. The first of the two intervals, of about a year, came as a result of the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese in late 1941 when he moved, as a refugee, into Free China and after a spell of school teaching started his care

Contents:

Contents; Preface; 1. The Early Years: My Father and Munsang College; 2. University Days and the Siege of Hong Kong; 3. Into Free China as a Refugee: Life in Samkong and Kweilin; 4. To Chungking: The War-time Capital; 5. To England via India: Postgraduate Studies at Oxford; 6. Post-Doctoral Training in Chicago; 7. Starting a Career the Hard WIley in Singapore; 8. The Emergence of a Chinese University; 9. A New University in a New Country; 10. Nanyang University: The One and Only; 11. Back to Alma Mater; 12. Post-Retirement Activities; Appendices; Glossary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-75017-8

1-282-70412-5

9786612704123

9786612750175

988-220-122-9

OCLC:

707091240