Robert Hart and China’s Early Modernization: His Journals, 1863–1866Richard Smith, John K. Fairbank, Katherine Bruner "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." |
Contents
1 Robert Hart in Chinas History | 1 |
6 DECEMBER 186315 MAY 1864 | 47 |
Establishing the IG s Status | 97 |
1 JUNE 186425 OCTOBER 1864 | 131 |
Facets if Administration | 200 |
26 OCTOBER 186418 JUNE 1865 | 228 |
7 AngloChing Reform Measures | 268 |
2 JULY 18652 MARCH 1866 | 294 |
7 MARCH 18667 AUGUST 1866 | 368 |
11 Perspectives and Hypotheses | 397 |
Appendixes | 413 |
Notes | 431 |
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9 Travels to Europe 1866 | 347 |
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