Lifetime in Academia : An Autobiography by Rayson Huang.
Title:
Lifetime in Academia : An Autobiography by Rayson Huang.
Author:
Huang, Rayson.
ISBN:
9789888053711
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (259 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1 - The Early Years: My Father and Munsang College -- 2 - University Days and the Siege of Hong Kong -- 3 - Into Free China as a Refugee: Life in Samkong and Kweilin -- 4 - To Chungking: The War-time Capital -- Institutions - Plate Section -- 5 - To England via India: Postgraduate Studies at Oxford -- 6 - Post-Doctoral Training in Chicago -- 7 - Starting a Career the Hard Way in Singapore -- 8 - The Emergence of a Chinese University -- Grace Huang - Plate Section -- 9 - A New University in a New Country -- 10 - Nanyang University: The One and Only -- 11 - Back to Alma Mater -- 12 - Post-Retirement Activities -- Rayson Huang - Plate Section -- Appendices -- I - Extracts from a Presidential Address to the General Assembly of the Association of South-East Asian Institutions of Higher Learning -- II - Nanyang University Convocation Address -- III - The Basic Purpose of Secondary Education: Address by the Vice-Chancellor to the 91st Congregation, the University of Hong Kong -- IV - Aspects of the Basic Law: Relationship between the Central Authorities and the Special Administrative Region -- Glossary.
Abstract:
Rayson Huang began his studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1938. Thirty-four years later, in 1972, he became the University's first Chinese Vice-Chancellor and served in that position until 1986. He sat on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and on the Drafting Committee that formulated China's Basic Law for Hong Kong after its return to China in 1997. In this lively and frank autobiography, Huang reflects on his diverse university career of almost half a century - in Hong Kong, China, Britain, the United States, Singapore and Malaysia - and on his experiences during World War II, when he moved, as a refugee, into Free China to study and teach. This expanded second edition includes substantial additional material on his childhood, his experiences in occupied Hong Kong, and his activities as vice-chancellor.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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