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  • Let There Be Light

    How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong

    by Mark Clifford ...
    Series series Center on Global Energy Policy Series
    The remarkable success of twentieth-century Hong Kong was driven by electricity. The British colony’s stunning export-driven economic growth, its status as a Cold War capitalist dynamo, its energetic civil society, its alluring urban modernity—all of these are stories of electricity’s transformative power.Let There Be Light is a groundbreaking history of electrification in Hong Kong. Mark L. ... Read more

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  • Let There Be Light

    How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong

    by Mark Clifford ...
    Series series Center on Global Energy Policy Series
    The remarkable success of twentieth-century Hong Kong was driven by electricity. The British colony’s stunning export-driven economic growth, its status as a Cold War capitalist dynamo, its energetic civil society, its alluring urban modernity—all of these are stories of electricity’s transformative power.Let There Be Light is a groundbreaking history of electrification in Hong Kong. Mark L. ... Read more

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  • The Greening of Asia

    The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency

    by Mark Clifford ...
    One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand are doing to build businesses that will lessen the environmental impact of Asia's extraordinary economic growth. Dirty air, foul water, and hellishly ... Read more

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  • City of Protest

    A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong: Penguin Specials

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    Hong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for the average family have deteriorated despite a robust economy, ample budget surpluses and record labour productivity. Successive governments have been reluctant to invest in services for the elderly, the disabled, the long-term sick, and the poor, while education has become more elitist. The ... Read more

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  • A System Apart

    Hong Kong’s Political Economy from 1997 till Now: Penguin Specials

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