Let There Be Light - How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong

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 colony's postwar economic rise and set in motion far-reaching political and social change.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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 colony’s postwar economic rise and set in motion far-reaching political and social change.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Clifford, Mark (Asia Business Council) Clifford
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2023
• EAN: 9780231201698
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20169-8
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Center on Global Energy Policy Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electrical, HISTORY / Asia / China, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, Hong Kong, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Electrical Engineering, History of engineering and technology, Asian History, History of engineering & technology, Energy, power generation, distribution and storage, Power generation & distribution, business & economics; Hong Kong