Robert Hart and China's early modernization : his journals, 1863-1866

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hart, Robert, 1835-1911
Other Authors: Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-, Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991, Bruner, Katherine Frost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by the Harvard University Press, 1991.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 155.
Subjects:
Hart, Robert, > 1835-1911 > Diaries.
Hart, Robert, > 1835-1911
China. > Hai guan zong shui wu si shu > History.
China. > Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Customs administration > China > Officials and employees > Diaries.
Customs administration > China > History > Sources.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Customs administration
Customs administration > Officials and employees
China
Diaries
History
Sources
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Table of Contents:
  • Robert Hart in China's history. Hart meets the proper time ; Shanghai 1864: the Anglo-Ch'ing partnership
  • Journals: 6 December 1863-15 May 1864
  • Peking 1864: establishing the I.G.'s status. The I.G. under the Tsungli Yamen ; The I.G. over the Maritime Customs Service
  • Journals: 1 June 1864-25 October 1864
  • Hart at work: facets of administration. Financing the growth of service ; Touring the southern ports ; Administrative problems at Shanghai ; The Yangtze ports and Hart's return to Peking
  • Journals: 26 October 1864-18 June 1865
  • Anglo-Ch'ing reform measures. The restoration reform program ; Hart's "bystander's view" and the Chinese response
  • Journals: 2 July 1865-2 March 1866
  • Travels to Europe, 1866. The Pin-ch'un mission ; Hart's marriage
  • Journals: 7 March 1866-7 August 1866
  • Perspectives and hypotheses. Hart as intermediary ; China's domestic transformation ; The provenance of reform proposals ; Hart's influence
  • the Alcock Convention of 1869 ; The customs and imperialism
  • Appendixes. A: Foreigner's positions in the Imperial Maritime Customs ; B: Letters from Hart to E.C Bowra ; C: Letters from Hart to Hester Jane Bredon.

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