Title Statements
- Full title :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.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1991.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed by the Harvard University Press, Published by the Council on East Asian studies Harvard University
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1991.
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 582 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0674775309, 9780674775305
- oclc:ocm23180112
- LC Classification:HJ7071.A3
- Dewey Decimal:354.510072/46/092
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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