Mark Clifford (Asia Business Council)

Broschiertes Buch

Let There Be Light

How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong

Beschreibung

Let There Be Light is a groundbreaking history of electrification in Hong Kong. Mark L. Clifford traces how a power company and its visionary founder jumpstarted the British colonyâ s postwar economic rise and set in motion far-reaching political and social change.

Autor

Mark L. Clifford is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation and the former executive director of the Asia Business Council. He was a director of Next Digital, publisher of the prodemocracy Apple Daily newspaper, and editor in chief of Hong Kong's two English-language newspapers, the South China Morning Post and The Standard. His books include The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency (Columbia, 2015). Clifford lived in Hong Kong from 1992 to 2020.

Produktdetails

• Center on Global Energy Policy Series
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780231201698
• ISBN-10: 0231201699
• Artikelnr.: 67753820