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Book Annual Departmental Report by the Commissioner for Resettlement

Download or read book Annual Departmental Report by the Commissioner for Resettlement written by Hong Kong. Resettlement Department and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Departmental Report by the Commissioner of Labour

Download or read book Annual Departmental Report by the Commissioner of Labour written by Hong Kong. Labour Dept and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diaries of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong  1921   1966

Download or read book The Diaries of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong 1921 1966 written by C. Chu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a documentary survey of Hong Kong history, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, from the perspective of the Maryknoll Sisters, as recorded in their diaries written during that period. It is a priceless collection of first-hand materials on the social history of Hong Kong.

Book The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong  1921 1969

Download or read book The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong 1921 1969 written by C. Chu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the adaptation of American women to cross-cultural situations in Hong Kong from 1921 to 1969. The Maryknoll Sisters were first American Catholic community of women founded for overseas missionary work, and were the first American sisters in Hong Kong. Maryknollers were independent, outgoing, and joyful women who were highly educated, and acted in professional capacities as teachers, social workers and medical personnel. The assertion of this book is that the mission provided Maryknollers what they had long desired - equal emplyment opportunities - which were only later emphasized in the women's liberation movement of the 1960s.

Book Annual Departmental Report by the Director of Marine

Download or read book Annual Departmental Report by the Director of Marine written by Hong Kong. Marine Dept and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hong Kong Annual Departmental Report by the Chairman  Urban Council and Director of Urban Services for the Financial Year

Download or read book Hong Kong Annual Departmental Report by the Chairman Urban Council and Director of Urban Services for the Financial Year written by Hong Kong. Urban Council and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom written by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Topias and Utopias in Health

Download or read book Topias and Utopias in Health written by Stanley R. Ingman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topias and Utopias in Health: Policy Studies.

Book The Making of Hong Kong

Download or read book The Making of Hong Kong written by Barrie Shelton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrayed as the ‘accidental pioneer of a new kind of urbanism’, Hong Kong’s evolution is traced from its pre-colonial and colonial origins to the contemporary vertical and volumetric metropolis of towers, podia-and-towers, decks, bridges, escalators and other components of multi-level city living.

Book Making Hong Kong

Download or read book Making Hong Kong written by Pui-yin Ho and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book provides a comprehensive survey of urban development in Hong Kong since 1841. Pui-yin Ho explores the ways in which the social, economic and political environments of different eras have influenced the city's development. From colonial governance, wartime experiences, high density development and the return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 through to contemporary challenges, this book explores forward-looking ideas that urban planning can offer to lead the city in the future. Evaluating the relationship between town planning and social change, this book looks at how a local Hong Kong identity emerged in the face of conflict and compromise between Chinese and European cultures. In doing so, it brings a fresh perspective to urban research, providing historical context and direction for the future development of the city. Hong Kong's urban development experience offers not only a model for other Chinese cities but also a better understanding of Asian cities more broadly.Urban studies scholars will find this an exemplary case study of a developing urban landscape. Town planners and architects will also benefit from reading this comprehensive book as it shows how Hong Kong can be taken to the next stage of urban development and modernisation.

Book Friends and Teachers

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Hayes
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 1996-08-01
  • ISBN : 9622093965
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Friends and Teachers written by James Hayes and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prompted by the Chinese saying, 'When I walk along with two others, I am bound to be able to learn from them', the title of this memoir reflects the author's close association with the local people through his work and leisure interests, and his consuming desire to learn as much as he could about their history and culture. The book covers several decades of Hong Kong's recent past, from the time James Hayes joined the Administrative Grade of the Hong Kong Civil Service in the 1950s to his retirement in the 1980s, thirty-two years later. Spending practically his whole career in departments rather than in the central Secretariat, serving in posts that brought him into direct contact with the public, we follow him as a young cadet fresh from language school to his first posting in the District Administration, New Territories, through all of his varied assignments to his final post between 1985-87, when he again served in a very changed New Territories in charge of an equally altered District Administration. James Hayes is also a scholar, known for his books on the Hong Kong region and its people, with a Ph.D. from London University and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters bestowed by the University of Hong Kong in 1992. In this, his latest work, he gives an engaging first-hand account of what it was like to be an expatriate government officer in an ever-changing Hong Kong, paying particular attention to the government and people relationship over that time, and its transformation over the years.

Book Industrialisation  Employment and Income Distribution

Download or read book Industrialisation Employment and Income Distribution written by Ronald Hsia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978. In spite of the wide recognition of Hong Kong’s successful growth record, little is known about the impact that rapid industrialisation has had on income distribution. The transformation of an entrepôt economy into an industrial one has been accompanied by a transition from a labour surplus to a labour shortage economy, which has had a profound influence on the distribution of income by size. The effect has been channelled through a number of variables such as the composition of employment by industry, occupational structure, labour force participation rate and wage structure. All these changes have, moreover, owed much to the existence of a market mechanism which has been virtually free from government intervention. Beginning with a comprehensive evaluation of the effects of the various characteristics of employment and the labour force on household income distribution, this study assesses the impact of Hong Kong’s industrialisation and employment growth on its income distribution. Through an analysis of the changes in industrial and occupational structures, employment status, household size, labour participation rate, inflow of labour and wage and employment structures, it considers not only how income distribution alters with economic development, but also the mechanism that has brought about these changes. The redistribution effect of government activities is examined and the incidence of particular taxes to different income groups is apportioned to give a clear overall picture. Finally, the benefits obtained from government expenditures on housing, education and health are measured and are allocated to different income groups, illustrating how this has appreciably reduced income inequality in Hong Kong.

Book Resistant City  Histories  Maps And The Architecture Of Development

Download or read book Resistant City Histories Maps And The Architecture Of Development written by Eunice Mei Feng Seng and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization. It is about islands as territories of resistance. It is about dense places where multitudes dwell in perennial contestations with the city on every front. It is about the histories, tactics and spaces of everyday survival within the hegemonic sway of global capital and unstoppable development. It is preoccupied with making visible the culture of resistance and architecture's entanglement with it. It is about urban resilience. It is about Hong Kong, where uncertainty is status quo.This interdisciplinary volume explores real and invented places and identities that are created in tandem with Hong Kong's urban development. Mapping contested spaces in the territory, it visualizes the energies and tenacity of the people as manifest in their daily life, social and professional networks and the urban spaces in which they inhabit. Embodying the multifaceted nature of the Asian metropolis, the book utilizes a combination of archival materials, public data sources, field observations and documentation, analytical drawings, models, and maps.Related Link(s)

Book At Home with Density

Download or read book At Home with Density written by Nuala Rooney and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and is one of the most prosperous societies , but much of the population lives in low quality, high-density housing. Through qualitative interviews with long-term residents of public housing, this book explores residents' experience of high-density space. It traces the development of Hong Kong housing forms and analyses how people's expectations of domestic space have been affected by social mobility and shifting cultural values of space, lifestyle, and design. The accompanying award-winning documentary film, A Thousand Pieces of Gold, will enable readers to experience these spaces and listen to revealing interviews with the tenants.

Book Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong

Download or read book Remaking Citizenship in Hong Kong written by Agnes S. Ku and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed comparative account of the development of citizenship and civil society in Hong Kong from its time as a British colony to its current status as a special autonomous region of China.

Book Annual Report

Download or read book Annual Report written by UMELCO (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report for 1970/71 covers period from June 15, 1970 to June 30, 1971.