Mark Clifford (Asia Business Council)

Let There Be Light

How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong

• Gebundenes Buch

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 colony¿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: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231201681
• ISBN-10: 0231201680
• Artikelnr.: 67793247

Autorenporträt

Mark L. Clifford

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