TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ure,Gavin
ED  - Project Muse.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Governors, politics, and the Colonial Office: public policy in Hong Kong, 1918-58 
T2  - Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series
SN  - 9789882208834
AV  - JQ1539.5 .U733 2012
U1  - 320.6095125 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Hong Kong, China
PB  - Hong Kong University Press
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonial Office
KW  - Influence
KW  - Political planning
KW  - China
KW  - Hong Kong
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Hong Kong (China)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-286) and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Governors, cadets, unofficials and the Colonial Office -- 3. The origins of policy, 1917-30 -- 4. Britain's influence over Hong Kong's policy, 1929-41 -- 5. Autonomy and the threat to sovereignty -- 6. Income tax and treasury control -- 7. Constitutional reform and its demise -- 8. Post-war housing policy and the British government -- 9. Squatter resettlement -- 10. Financial autonomy -- 11. Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - This book fleshes out the impact of political figures and how their actions, and inactions, affect various imperial or Hong Kong political and administrative affairs. The tendrils of Hong Kong's budding autonomy from the United Kingdom are identified and followed with attention paid to the various actors, including observing which actors fade in importance and which ones seize more of the stage
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9789882208834/
ER  -