Facing Japan : Chinese politics and Japanese imperialism, 1931-1937 / Parks M. Coble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coble, Parks M., 1946-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 135.

Harvard East Asian monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Politics and government--1928-1937.

China.

Politics and government.

China--Foreign relations--Japan.

International relations.

Japan.

Japan--Foreign relations--China.

Physical Description:

xi, 492 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1991.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0674775309

OCLC:

23968875