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A Modern History of Hong Kong

內容簡介

內容簡介 This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original ’Opium War’. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to ’Mother China’, the most powerful Communist state in the world

作者介紹

作者介紹 Steve Tsang was born in Hong Kong and educated at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Oxford. After he completed his D.Phil. at St Antony's College, Oxford, his former teachers asked him to stay on to set up a research and archival project on Hong Kong prior to the transfer of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China in 1997. Hence, his early career and books focused on Hong Kong. Since then he has published widely on the politics, history, security, and international relations of Taiwan and China. He also developed an interest and expertise on how democracies should deal with transnational terrorism in the age of global terrorism. After spending nearly three decades at Oxford, latterly as Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, he left Oxford to take up the Chair of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham in 2011. He enjoys reading, walking with his wife and son, and encouraging students to challenge their teachers intellectually.

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