Chris Patten is currently Chancellor of Oxford University. As a British MP (1979-92) he served as Minister for Overseas Development, Secretary of State for the Environment and Chairman of the Conservative Party, being described afterwards as "the best Tory Prime Minister we never had" (Observer). He is well known for being the last Governor of Hong Kong (1992-7), about which he wrote in East and West (1998). Both that and his most recent book, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths about World Affairs (2005), were No. 1 international bestsellers. In 2008 he wrote What Next? Surviving the Twenty-First Century. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1998 and a life peer in 2005.
Chris Patten was a cradle Catholic (hence the title), became one of the most prominent Tory 'Wets' of the 1980s and 1990s, and went on to hold a series of prominent public offices - Chairman of the Conservative Party, the last Governor of Hong Kong, European Commissioner for External Affairs, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the BBC, advisor to the Pope - as he self-deprecatingly puts it 'a Grand Poo-bah, the Lord High Everything Else'. He writes with wry humor about his time in all these offices, taking us behind the scenes and showing us unexpected sides of many of the great figures of the day. In exploring his own identity he also examines the dangers of identity politics, which he encountered in several of his jobs, from Northern Ireland to Asia and the Middle East. No politician now writing is so purely enjoyable as Chris Patten
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“First Confession”, by Chris Patten, Allen Lane, 2017 first ed. 典型英式風格,時時帶著一些詰屈聱牙的味道和酸酸的諷刺,比如這句:My greatest crime, I have reflected subsequently, was to decline to be either a lame or a Peking duck。讀的比較慢,一是不少背景...
評分“First Confession”, by Chris Patten, Allen Lane, 2017 first ed. 典型英式風格,時時帶著一些詰屈聱牙的味道和酸酸的諷刺,比如這句:My greatest crime, I have reflected subsequently, was to decline to be either a lame or a Peking duck。讀的比較慢,一是不少背景...
評分“First Confession”, by Chris Patten, Allen Lane, 2017 first ed. 典型英式風格,時時帶著一些詰屈聱牙的味道和酸酸的諷刺,比如這句:My greatest crime, I have reflected subsequently, was to decline to be either a lame or a Peking duck。讀的比較慢,一是不少背景...
評分“First Confession”, by Chris Patten, Allen Lane, 2017 first ed. 典型英式風格,時時帶著一些詰屈聱牙的味道和酸酸的諷刺,比如這句:My greatest crime, I have reflected subsequently, was to decline to be either a lame or a Peking duck。讀的比較慢,一是不少背景...
評分“First Confession”, by Chris Patten, Allen Lane, 2017 first ed. 典型英式風格,時時帶著一些詰屈聱牙的味道和酸酸的諷刺,比如這句:My greatest crime, I have reflected subsequently, was to decline to be either a lame or a Peking duck。讀的比較慢,一是不少背景...
圖書標籤: 彭定康 香港 曆史 英文 政治 現實 中國近代 HK
僅第八章就值迴票價(專門掃描瞭下來,需要的找我要)!89: I have never before and since felt so close to history being made. Sadly, it turned out to be the wrong history. / My greatest crime, I have reflected subsequently, was to decline to be either a lame or a Peking duck. / A lot of speeches on the unique way of life in Hong Kong as well as 公民價值和經濟成功的關係。
評分談中國和香港部分就值滿分瞭,再次凸顯瞭身份政治的尷尬——迴歸啦,香港人可以做中國人啦,結果遇上政治反對派,用的還是“(你不是)真正的中國人”那套,“港奸”“英國狗”的帽子一頂接著一頂扣。支媒對泛民比對建製還熱心,無非是陳淨心們太下作播齣來不好看;以及最重要的,害怕人看到真正的香港
評分僅第八章就值迴票價(專門掃描瞭下來,需要的找我要)!89: I have never before and since felt so close to history being made. Sadly, it turned out to be the wrong history. / My greatest crime, I have reflected subsequently, was to decline to be either a lame or a Peking duck. / A lot of speeches on the unique way of life in Hong Kong as well as 公民價值和經濟成功的關係。
評分談中國和香港部分就值滿分瞭,再次凸顯瞭身份政治的尷尬——迴歸啦,香港人可以做中國人啦,結果遇上政治反對派,用的還是“(你不是)真正的中國人”那套,“港奸”“英國狗”的帽子一頂接著一頂扣。支媒對泛民比對建製還熱心,無非是陳淨心們太下作播齣來不好看;以及最重要的,害怕人看到真正的香港
評分談中國和香港部分就值滿分瞭,再次凸顯瞭身份政治的尷尬——迴歸啦,香港人可以做中國人啦,結果遇上政治反對派,用的還是“(你不是)真正的中國人”那套,“港奸”“英國狗”的帽子一頂接著一頂扣。支媒對泛民比對建製還熱心,無非是陳淨心們太下作播齣來不好看;以及最重要的,害怕人看到真正的香港
First Confession 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載