Hong Kong Confidential

9789887792895
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION :

A former senior Chinese Administrative Officer has at long last lifted another little corner of the veil of half-truths and anodyne official releases which hitherto shrouded many of the decisions and evasions under the long Hong Kong governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose.

David T. K. Wong ¡X who started working life as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant at the age of 13 before becoming a journalist, teacher, colonial bureaucrat, international businessman, and then a writer of short stories and novels ¡X is clearly a man of many parts. He has now turned his narrative skills to producing a pungent, sardonic, cerebral and revelatory insider memoir of his experiences in the upper reaches of the colonial administration during the 1970s.

In doing so, he draws attention to the political, cultural and economic cross-currents that have always swirled through the uniquely paradoxical city. As a Chinese, he constantly found himself struggling with a three-horned dilemma: how to serve the people of Hong Kong, who paid his salary; the wider Chinese nation, from which he was culturally and emotionally inseparable; and the demands of the British crown, to which he had publicly sworn his allegiance.

Hong Kong Confidential is a valuable contribution to the historical mosaic of a dynamic Chinese community living through turbulent times.

 

PRODUCT DETAILS :

ISBN : 9789887792895
BY (AUTHOR) Wong, David T K
PUBLISHER : Blacksmith Books PUBLICATION DATE : August 02, 2018
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : Hong Kong IMPRINT : Blacksmith Books
LANGUAGE : English AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 225 mm x 152 mm


PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
History & Archaeology
Society & Social Sciences


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