| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 168 pages) : illustrations |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Preface; 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; 5. To England via India: Postgraduate Studies at Oxford; 6. Post-Doctoral Training in Chicago; 7. Starting a Career the Hard WIly in Singapore; 8. The Emergence of a Chinese University; 9. A New University in a New Country; 10. Nanyang University: The One and Only; 11. Back to Alma Mater; 12. Post-Retirement Activities; Appendices; Glossary |
| Summary |
After receiving a classical Chinese primary and a bilingual secondary education in his father's school Rayson Huang entered the University of Hong Kong in 1938. The forty-eight years thereafter, except for two short intervals, were spent in studying, teaching, research, and/or administration in universities in Hong Kong, China, Britain, the United States, Singapore and Malaysia. The first of the two intervals, of about a year, came as a result of the fall of Hong Kong to the Japanese in late 1941 when he moved, as a refugee, into Free China and after a spell of school teaching started his care |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Huang, Rayson, 1920-2015.
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Huang, Rayson, 1920-2015 |
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College teachers -- China -- Hong Kong -- Biography
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
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College teachers
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China -- Hong Kong
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005366133 |
| ISBN |
9789882201224 |
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9882201229 |
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1282750178 |
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9781282750173 |
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1282704125 |
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9781282704121 |
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9786612704123 |
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6612704128 |
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9786612750175 |
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6612750170 |
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9622095186 |
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9789622095182 |
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