Mark Clifford Bücher

Preface -- One: The summer of democracy -- Two: An umbrella occupation: a new generation rebels -- Three: And then there were none -- Four: Property and poverty -- Five: Opium, free trade, and a "barren rock" -- Six: A "dying city" rises from the ruins -- Seven: "Horses will still run, stocks will still sizzle, dancers will still dance" -- Eight: Massacre in Tiananmen: "Today's China is tomorrow's Hong Kong" -- Nine: "I have to live in the real world" -- Ten: The last governor: "A thousand-year sinner" -- Eleven: China opens for business -- Twelve: "The great Chinese takeaway" -- Thirteen: "The first postmodern city to die" -- Fourteen: The endgame -- Fifteen: Punishing a media maverick -- Sixteen: "Strike hard" -- Seventeen: "History will absolve me" -- Epilogue: A newspaper is murdered, a city mourns -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

A hopeful look at the next business boom: partnerships between Asian corporations, the government, and civil society to create new technologies that will help save the most crowded places on Earth.

A hopeful look at the next business boom: partnerships between Asian corporations, the government, and civil society to create new technologies that will help save the most crowded places on Earth.

Let There Be Light is a groundbreaking history of electrification in Hong Kong. Mark L. Clifford traces how a power company and its visionary founder jumpstarted the British colony's postwar economic rise and set in motion far- reaching political and social change.