A History of The University of Hong Kong Volume 1, 1911-1945
Posted: November 5th, 2012 | No Comments »Volume 1 of Peter Cunich’s History of the University of Hong Kong is now out…it is the centenary of HKU this year….
- A comprehensive history of the University of Hong Kong and will be the standard work of reference for many years.
– Demonstrates the important contribution that HKU made to the development of both Hong Kong and Malaya, the two areas whence most of its students were drawn.
– Places HKU in the wider colonial context of the British Empire and developments in higher education around the world.
-Â Will appeal to scholars and a more general audience; a must-buy for any graduate of HKU.Â
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Peter Cunich has been teaching history at the University of Hong Kong for nearly twenty years. His main field of research is late medieval and early modern English history, but he also has an interest in British missionary activity in China and Australasia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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