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Entering China's service : Robert Hart's journals, 1854-1863 / edited and with narratives by Katherine F. Bruner, John K. Fairbank, Richard J. Smith.
Lippincott Library HJ7071.A3 H37 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart, Robert, 1835-1911.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 125.
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 125
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hart, Robert, 1835-1911.
- Hart, Robert.
- Customs administration--Officials and employees--China--Biography.
- Customs administration.
- Customs administration--Officials and employees.
- History.
- China.
- Customs administration--China--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 427 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by the Harvard University Press, 1986-
- Summary:
- Robert Hart was one of those empire builders of the Victorian age who had a long and nearly uninterrupted experience in China, from 1854, when as a young Irishman from Belfast he landed in Ningpo, until 1908, when as a man in his seventies he finally retired to England.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 393-396.
- ISBN:
- 0674257359
- OCLC:
- 13947763
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