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

ISBN-13: 9780674775305 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 600 str.

Katherine F Bruner

Opis

As the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service, Robert Hart was one of the most influential Westerners 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.