Quick Tidings of Hongkong by Austin Coates
A sophisticated and efficient telecommunications system has been one of the most important factors in Hong Kong's success as a major international commercial center. Coates here provides a short history of the development of this system, introducing the people, the complex commercial issues, and the technical considerations involved. This lively, entertaining text is supplemented by over 60 photographs and drawings.
Austin Coates (1922-97), a former senior British civil servant in Hong Kong, Malaya, and Sarawak, left government service at age forty to pursue a professional writing career. Widely regarded as the most distinguished English-language author in Hong Kong, Coates remained a long-time Hong Kong resident, later dividing his time between Hong Kong and Portugal, where he died. Macao and the British is a companion to his other two books on Macao, A Macao Narrative and the historical novel City of Broken Promises. Both these books and his other novel, The Road, are also available in the Echoes series from Hong Kong University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195840247 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195840240 |
| Title | Quick Tidings of Hongkong |
| Author | Austin Coates |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | OUP India |
| Year published | 1990-06-28 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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