Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization: His Journals 1863-1866 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization: His Journals 1863-1866 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Book

Robert Hart was the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service. These journals follow on from Entering China's Service" and cover the years..."Read More

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    As the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service, Robert Hart was the most influential Westerner in China for half a century. These journal entries continue the sequence begun in Entering China's Service and cover the years when Hart was setting up Customs procedures, establishing a modus operandi with the Ch'ing bureaucracy, and inspecting the treaty ports. They culminate in Hart's return visit to Europe with the Pin-ch'un Mission and his marriage in Northern Ireland.

    Smith, Fairbank and Bruner interleave the segments of Hart's journals with lively narratives describing the contemporary Chinese scene and recounting Hart's responses to the many challenges of establishing a Western-style organization within a Chinese milieu.

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