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Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet GCMG (20 February 1835 - 20 September 1911), born in 1835 in Armagh, Ireland was a British consular official in China, who served from 1863-1911 as the second Inspector General of China's Imperial Maritime Custom Service (IMCS).
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Preliminary Material /Katherine F. Bruner , John K. Fairbank and Richard J. Smith --Hart's Origins /Katherine F. Bruner , John K. Fairbank and Richard J. Smith --Journal /Katherine F. Bruner , John K. Fairbank and Richard J. Smith --Ningpo: Hart's Induction into the Chinese Scene /Katherine F. Bruner , John K. Fairbank and Richard J. Smith --Journal /Katherine F. Bruner , John K. Fairbank and Richard J. Smith --Ningpo to Canton 1855-1858: Hart Grows with the Times /Katherine F. Bruner , John K. Fairbank and Richard J. Smith --Journal /Katherine F. Bruner , John K. Fairbank and Richard J. Smith --Hart and the New Anglo-Chinese Order of the 1860s /Katherine F. Bruner , John K. Fairbank and Ric...
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
A tale of expatriate life, rich in detail, as bold, bright women far from home pushed against the onerous restrictions imposed by Victorian notions of femininity. But the greatest joy of this book lies in what it shows us about relationships between Victorian men and women.
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“There is almost no Chinese official upon whom I can rely. But the report of this foreigner is reliable… If we had 100 Harts, our affairs would run smoothly.” —Prince Gong, Director of the Tsungli Yamen The prince headed the Yamen, forerunner of the Foreign Ministry, from 1861 to 1884 and 1894 until his death in 1898. Sir Robert Hart served as the Inspector-General of the Imperial Maritime Customs Service of the Qing dynasty from 1863 until his death in 1911. No foreigner has ever had or will ever have the life he did in China. He provided the government with more than 20 per cent of its annual revenue, set up the Chinese Post Office, founded a system of lighthouses along the coast, ...
"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. Smith, Fairbank, and 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."