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100 1  Grantham, Alexander,|d1899-1978.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/no2013088863 
245 10 Via Ports :|bFrom Hong Kong to Hong Kong /|cAlexander 
       Grantham with a new introduction by Lord Wilson of 
       Tillyhorn. 
250    2nd ed. 
264  1 Hong Kong :|bHong Kong University Press, HKU,|c2012. 
300    1 online resource (xvi, 205 pages). 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
347    text file|2rdaft 
490 1  Echoes 
505 0  Part One: Pre-war Days; 1. Hong Kong, 1922-1935; 2. 
       Bermuda, 1935-1938; 3. Jamaica, 1938-1941; Part Two: War 
       Years; 4. Nigeria, 1942-1944; 5. Fiji and the South 
       Pacific, 1945-1947; Part Three: Hong Kong, 1947-1957; 6. 
       Return to Port, 1947-1957; 7. Communist China; 8. 
       Retrospect. 
520    Sir Alexander Grantham became Governor of Hong Kong in 
       1947 and served until 1957. His term of office saw rapid 
       reconstruction and growing prosperity after World War II. 
       Civil war and revolution in China drove hundreds of 
       thousands of refugees into the British colony, while tense
       relations between Britain and the new People's Republic 
       gave rise to difficult and potentially explosive incidents
       in Hong Kong. Plans for democratic reform were quietly 
       dropped as Grantham instead crafted an authoritarian form 
       of government that combined strong leadership with gradual
       social reform - a system that lasted almost to the end of 
       colonial rule. In this elegant memoir, first published by 
       the Hong Kong University Press in 1965, Grantham describes
       his thirty-five years in the British colonial service, 
       which began in Hong Kong in 1922 and ended here in 1957; 
       he also held senior positions in Bermuda, Jamaica, Nigeria
       and the South Pacific. Only a few of Hong Kong's former 
       governors have published anything about their terms of 
       office here, but Grantham's stands out as the most 
       interesting and substantial. Via Ports is an important 
       first-hand account of the workings of Britain's colonial 
       system. It also contains vivid, often amusing anecdotes 
       about life behind the scenes in Government House during 
       the long twilight of the British Empire. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
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600 10 Grantham, Alexander,|d1899-1978.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/no2013088863 
600 17 Grantham, Alexander,|d1899-1978.|2fast|0https://
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650  0 Colonial administrators|zGreat Britain|vBiography.|0https:
       //id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101207 
650  0 Governors|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85056115|zChina|zHong Kong|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n92004431-781|vBiography.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237 
650  7 Colonial administrators.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/868434 
650  7 Governors.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/945704 
650  7 Politics and government.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/1919741 
651  0 Hong Kong (China)|xPolitics and government.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97005582 
651  0 Fiji|xPolitics and government.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2008115021 
651  7 Great Britain.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204623
651  7 China|zHong Kong.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1260796 
651  7 Fiji.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1208479 
655  0 Electronic books. 
655  4 Electronic books. 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       genreForms/gf2014026049 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aGrantham, Alexander.|tVia Ports : From 
       Hong Kong to Hong Kong.|dHong Kong : Hong Kong University 
       Press, HKU, ©2012|z9789888083855 
830  0 Echos.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98103749 
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       current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 
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