Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong

by Mark Clifford

The remarkable success of twentieth-century Hong Kong was driven by electricity. The British colony's stunning export-driven economic growth, its status as a Cold War capitalist dynamo, its energetic civil society, its alluring urban modernity--all of these are stories of electricity's transformative power.

Let There Be Light is a groundbreaking history of electrification in Hong Kong. Mark L. Clifford traces how a power company and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231201680
• ISBN13: 9780231201681
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"