An Impossible Dream: Hong Kong University from Foundation to Re-establishment, 1910-1950 Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	A Note on Sources
	Romanization and Names
	Notes on Contributors
	List of Plates
	List of Abbreviations
1	The Founding of the University of Hong Kong: British Imperial Ideals and Chinese Practical Common Sense	1
2	The 'German Factor' in the Founding of the University of Hong Kong	23
3	Godliness and Good Learning: The British Missionary Societies and HKU	39
4	Training Teachers: Processes, Products, and Purposes	65
5	The Malayan Connection	99
6	Women, Gender, and HKU	119
7	Bookworms, Dandies, and Activists: Student Life at HKU in the 1920s and 1930s	139
8	The Hong Kong Portuguese Community and its Connections with Hong Kong University 1914-1941	163
9	Campus Activism in Defence of China and Hong Kong, 1937-1941	175
10	University Finances, 1911-1941	193
11	The University by Report	213
12	The Re-establishment of the University, 1945-1950	241
	Epilogue	265
	Appendices	267
	Notes	275
	Bibliography	333