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An impossible dream : Hong Kong University from foundation to re-establishment, 1910-1950 / edited, Chan Lau Kit-ching and Peter Cunich.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,
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2003.
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xxvi, 374 p. ; 26 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Monograph
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0195938429 :;
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Foreword / Wang Gungwu -- Preface / Peter Cunich -- 1. The Founding of the University of Hong Kong: British Imperial Ideals and Chinese Practical Common Sense / Alfred H. Y. Lin -- 2. The 'German Factor' in the Founding of the University of Hong Kong
/ Bert Becker -- 3. Godliness and Good Learning: The British Missionary Societies and HKU / Peter Cunich -- 4. Training Teachers: Processes, Products, and Purposes / Anthony Sweeting -- 5. The Malayan Connection / C. Mary Turnbull -- 6. Women, Gender, and HKU / Staci Ford -- 7. Bookworms, Dandies, and Activists: Student Life at HKU in the 1920s and 1930s / Hans W. Y. Yeung -- 8. The Hong Kong Portuguese Community and its Connections with Hong Kong University 1914-1941 / Jason Wordie -- 9. Campus Activism in Defence of China and Hong Kong, 1937-1941 / Fung Chi-ming -- 10. University Finances, 1911-1941 / Peter Cunich -- 11. The University by Report / Anthony Sweeting. 12. The Re-establishment of the University, 1945-1950 / Chan Lau Kit-ching -- Epilogue / Chan Lau Kit-ching.
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