ADVANCED BOOK INFORMATION A Lifetime in Academia
An Autobiography by Rayson Huang
Expanded Second Edition
Publication date: March 2011 Extent: 260 pp Dimension: 229 x 152 mm Hardback ISBN: 978-988-8083-27-5 Price: Sing$53.00 / US$40.00 With black-and-white illustrations.
“… an outstanding academic, a sensible and perceptive administrator, and a talented man endowed with a sense of humour, a certain generosity of spirit and sensitivity to the needs of others.” — J. Brian Heaton, China Quarterly, on the first edition of A Lifetime in Academia • A lively and frank autobiography of Rayson Huang, former Vice-Chancellor of HKU. • Huang reflects on his diverse university experience of almost half a century and on his experiences during World War II, when he moved, as a refugee, into Free China to study and teach. • This expanded second edition includes substantial additional material on his childhood, his experiences in occupied Hong Kong, and his activities as vice-chancellor.
A distinguished chemist, Rayson Huang took his undergraduate degree at the University of Hong Kong before pursuing doctoral research at Oxford University and post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago. He taught at universities in Malaya and Singapore and became Vice-Chancellor of Nanyang University in Singapore in 1969. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the HKU from 1972 until his retirement in 1986. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong from 1977 to 1983 and served on the Drafting Committee for a Basic Law for Hong Kong after the territory’s return to China in 1997. Please Send Your Orders To:
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