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

by John King Fairbank and Parks M. Coble

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674775309
• ISBN13: 9780674775305
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 582 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.3"