Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization: His Journals, 1863-1866 - Couverture rigide

Hart, Robert; Smith, Richard J.; Fairbank, John King; Bruner, Katherine F.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674775309 ISBN 13 : 9780674775305

Editeur : Harvard University, Asia Center, 1991

Synopsis

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.

Richard Smith, John King Fairbank, and Katherine 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

John King Fairbank was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674775309
• ISBN 13: 9780674775305
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 600
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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