A Lifetime in Academia

An Autobiography by Rayson Huang, Expanded Second Edition

Rayson Huang

• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9789882206502
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

Rayson Huang began his studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1938. Thirty-four years later, in 1972, he became the University's first Chinese Vice-Chancellor and served in that position until 1986. He sat on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and on the Drafting Committee that formulated China's Basic Law for Hong Kong after its return to China in 1997. In this lively and frank autobiography, Huang reflects on his diverse university career of almost half a century — in Hong Kong, China, Britain, the United States, Singapore and Malaysia — 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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Book Synopsis
• Author Biography
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• 1 The Early Years: My Father and Munsang College
• 2 University Days and the Siege of Hong Kong
• 3 Into Free China as a Refugee: Life in Samkong and Kweilin
• 4 To Chungking: The Wartime Capital
• Photos: Institutions
• 5 To England via India: Postgraduate Studies at Oxford
• 6 Post-Doctoral Studies in Chicago
• 7 Starting a Career the Hard Way in Singapore
• 8 The Emergence of a Chinese University
• Photos: Grace Huang
• 9 A New University in a New Country
• 10 Nanyang University: The One and Only
• 11 Back to Alma Mater
• 12 Post-Retirement Activities
• Photos: Rayson Huang
• Appendix I
• Appendix II
• Appendix III
• Appendix IV
• Glossary