Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern. Clifford Paperback**

Columbia University Press

Let There Be LightHow Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong\nAuthor(s): Mark Clifford\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231201698, 978-0231201698\nSynopsis\nThe remarkable success of twentieth-century Hong Kong was driven by electricity. The British colonys stunning export-driven economic growth, its status as a Cold War capitalist dynamo, its energetic civil society, its alluring urban modernityall of these are stories of electricitys transformative power.\n\nLet There Be Light is a groundbreaking history of electrification in Hong Kong. Mark L. Clifford traces how a power company and its visionary founder jumpstarted Hong Kongs postwar economic rise and set in motion far-reaching political and social change against the backdrop of Hong Kongs shifting relations with the Peoples Republic of China and the United Kingdom. Clifford examines avowedly laissez-faire Hong Kongs attempt to nationalize electri.