Supporting the British war effort : 1939-1945 -- After the war : 1945-1947 -- The governor goes native : 1947-1952 -- A "horse and buggy" statute : 1952-1961 -- Cowperthwaite is reined in : 1961-1971 -- Sincere failure or successful charade? : 1971-1981 -- The modern city-state : 1981-1997 -- The return to Chinese rule : 1997-2009 -- Epilogue : where to from here?
Summary
This work tells an instructive tale of Hong Kong's tax system from 1940 until the present day. For Hong Kong's own historians and political scientists, it supplies cogent but previously neglected evidence of the influence of the territory's business interests
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and index
