The Development of Education in Hong Kong 1841-1897: As Revealed by the Early Education Reports Of the HK Government 1848-1896
By Gillian Bickley
Published by Proverse Hong Kong
Distributed by The Chinese University Press
About the Book
The Development of Education in Hong Kong, 1841-1897: As Revealed by the Early Education Reports Of the Hong Kong Government 1848-1896 publishes for the first time as a complete sequence the full main text of fifty Hong Kong Government Reports on Education, submitted mostly annually by successive Hong Kong Governors to the Colonial Office in London as part of the official record.
The Reports begin when the Government first granted public funds for Hong Kong schools, and the last in this sequence is dated April 1897, fourteen months before Britain's lease of the New Territories from Imperial China expanded and changed the responsibilities of the Education Department considerably and also laid the foundation for the return of the whole of Hong Kong to modern China at midnight, 30 June 1997.
Packed with unique material about schools, scholars, teachers, parents, educational policies and politics, the Reports (discussed and contextualised by ample notes) provide data, dialogue, vivid anecdotes, drama, emotion and ideals. Recognisably the basis of our present experience, with the same hot topics concerning language standards and the medium of instruction, these reports could beneficially inform both our thinking about the past and decisions about the future.
Some of the writing is highly personal, and the book appropriately includes brief select biographies of four of the writers, notable members of the Hong Kong community: George Smith, first Anglican missionary Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong); James Legge, missionary, translator, and first Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Frederick Stewart ˘w "Founder of Hong Kong Government Education" ˘w first principal of the first Hong Kong Government Anglo-Chinese school (now Queen's College), first Head of the Government Education Department, and first Government Native English-Speaking Teacher in Hong Kong; and E. J. Eitel, German missionary, writer, lexicographer, journal editor and historian of Hong Kong.
About the Author(s) / Editor(s) / Translator(s)
GILLIAN BICKLEY has been studying, writing and lecturing in the area of the history of Nineteenth Century Hong Kong education for almost two decades. Her book, The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889), published in 1997 by the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University, is a mini history of Nineteenth Century Government Education in Hong Kong, told through the biography of its founder.
Contents
Preface by Edward S. T. Ho, S.B.S., J.P., Chairman, Council of the Lord Wilson Heritage Trust
Foreword by Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, J.P., Director of Education
Introduction by Ruth Hayhoe, Ph.D., Director, Institute of Education, Hong Kong
Commentary by Verner Bickley, MBE, Ph.D., Director of the Institute of Language in Education and Assistant Director of Education, Hong Kong (1983-1992)
Acknowledgements
Table of Illustrations
Historical and Editorial Introduction
ˇEFirst Steps
ˇEIntroduction to the Text
ˇENotes on the Text and to Reading the Reports
ˇEEditorial Practices
The Education Reports 1848-1896 and their Writers
ˇEThe Right Reverend George Smith, D.D., M.A. (Oxon)
Committee for Superintending Chinese Schools, 1848-1858
Reports, 1848-1858
ˇEReverend Professor James Legge, LL.D., M.A. (Aberdeen), D.D. (New York)
Board of Education, 1859-1864
Reports, 1859-1864
ˇEThe Hon. Frederick Stewart, LL.D., M.A. (Aberdeen)
Inspectorate of Schools, 1865-1877
Reports, 1865-1877
ˇEReverend Ernst Eitel, M.A., Ph.D. (T郑bingen)
Inspectorate of Schools, 1878-1896
Reports, 1878-1896
Conclusion
Glossary
Abbreviations
Notes
Works Cited and Further Reading
Index (Persons, Schools, General)
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