Hong Kong Confidential
Wong, David T K
| Autor: | Wong, David T K |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Biography / Autobiography |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 15.04.2019 |
| EAN: | 9789887792895 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 532 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Blacksmith Books |
| Untertitel: | Life as a Subversive |
Produktinformationen "Hong Kong Confidential"
A former senior Chinese Administrative Officer has at long last lifted another corner of the veil of half-truths which have shrouded many of the decisions taken under the long governorship of Sir Murray MacLehose.David T. K. Wong — who started working life as a dishwasher in a Chinese restaurant at the age of 13 before becoming a journalist, teacher, bureaucrat, businessman, and then a writer of short stories and novels — has turned his narrative skills to producing a pungent, cerebral and revelatory insider memoir of his experiences in the upper reaches of the colonial administration during the 1970s.He constantly struggled 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 and paradoxical Chinese community living through turbulent times.
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