Robert Hart and China's early modernization : his journals, 1863-1866 / edited and with narratives by Richard J. Smith, John K. Fairbank, Katherine F. Bruner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Robert, 1835-1911.

Contributor:

Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-

Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991.

Bruner, Katherine Frost.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 155.

Harvard East Asian monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hart, Robert, 1835-1911--Diaries.

Hart, Robert.

Hart, Robert, 1835-1911.

China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu.

Diaries.

Customs administration--Officials and employees--China--Diaries.

Customs administration.

Customs administration--Officials and employees.

History.

China.

Customs administration--China--History--Sources.

China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu--History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 582 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by the 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:

23180112