Mark Clifford (Asia Business Council)

Let There Be Light

How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong

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Produktbeschreibung

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 colonyà â â s postwar economic rise and set in motion far-reaching political and social change.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Private Light and Colonial Power
2. In the Beginning: China Light & Power, 1900-1940
3. War, Occupation, and New Possibilities, 1941-1946
4. "The Problem of People," 1947-1958
5. Electricity as a Political Project, 1959-1964
6. "Die-Hard Reactionary" in the Expanding Colonial State, 1964-1973
7. "Intelligent Anticipation" for "1997 and All That," 1974-1982
8. Sing the City Electric
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index