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Author Huang, Rayson, 1920-2015.

Title A lifetime in academia : an autobiography / by Rayson Huang
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 168 pages) : illustrations
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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
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Subject Huang, Rayson, 1920-2015.
SUBJECT Huang, Rayson, 1920-2015 fast
Subject College teachers -- China -- Hong Kong -- Biography
EDUCATION -- Higher.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
College teachers
China -- Hong Kong
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005366133
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