Format:
1 online resource (243 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9789882209206
Series Statement:
Echoes
Content:
Sir Alexander Grantham was Governor of Hong Kong from 1947 to 1957, one of the most dramatic decades in the city's history. This was a time of rapid reconstruction after World War II and growing prosperity. But civil war and revolution in China posed new challenges to the precarious British colony and tested Grantham's skills as a diplomat. In this lively memoir, first published in 1965, Grantham describes his thirty-five years in the British colonial service, which began in Hong Kong with a government cadetship in the 1920s and ended here in 1957. A new introduction by Lord Wilson of Tillyorn, Governor of Hong Kong from 1987 to 1992, reflects on Grantham's contributions to Hong Kong. Sir Alexander Grantham became Governor of Hong Kong in 1947 and served until 1957. His term of office saw rapid reconstruction and growing prosperity after World War II. Civil war and revolution in China drove hundreds of thousands of refugees into the British colony, while tense relations between Britain and the new People's Republic gave rise to difficult and potentially explosive incidents in Hong Kong. Plans for democratic reform were quietly dropped as Grantham instead crafted an authoritarian form of government that combined strong leadership with gradual social reform - a system that lasted almost to the end of colonial rule. In this elegant memoir, first published by the Hong Kong University Press in 1965, Grantham describes his thirty-five years in the British colonial service, which began in Hong Kong in 1922 and ended here in 1957; he also held senior positions in Bermuda, Jamaica, Nigeria and the South Pacific. Only a few of Hong Kong's former governors have published anything about their terms of office here, but Grantham's stands out as the most interesting and substantial. Via Ports is an important first-hand account of the workings of Britain's
Content:
Intro -- Echoes series -- Author's Note -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction to the Paperback Edition -- Part One: Pre-war Days -- 1. Hong Kong, 1922-1935 -- 2. Bermuda, 1935-1938 -- 3. Jamaica, 1938-1941 -- Part Two: War Years -- 4. Nigeria, 1942-1944 -- 5. Fiji and the South Pacific, 1945-1947 -- Part Three: Hong Kong, 1947-1957 -- 6. Return to Port, 1947-1957 -- 7. Communist China -- 8. Retrospect -- Index -- Plates.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789888083855
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789888083855
Language:
English
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