John Dragon Young

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John Dragon Young (1949-1996) was a scholar of Chinese history who was also the first history scholar to become an elected member of parliament in Hong Kong under British rule.

[edit] Published works

  • Confucianism and Christianity: the Jesuits, their converts, and their critics, 1552-1669 (1976)
  • "Sun Yat-sen and Hong Kong : the development of his early theories on China's modernization, 1887-1897", published in Perspectives on China's modernization : variations on a theme (1984)
  • Towards a Hong Kong identity : the riots of 1966 and 1967 (1991)

[edit] References

  • MacPherson, Kerrie L. "John Dragon Young (1949-1996)". The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 294-295.