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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mark Clifford, Mark (Asia Business Council) Clifford
• Edition: Columbia University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 18.07.2023
• EAN: 9780231201698
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20169-8
• Pages: 312
• Thème: Center on Global Energy Policy Series
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire; 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