{"product_id":"robert-hart-and-chinas-early-robert-hart-9780674775305","title":"Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization: His Journals, 1863-1866","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs 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 \u003ci\u003eEntering China's Service\u003c\/i\u003e and cover the years when Hart was setting up Customs procedures, establishing a \u003ci\u003emodus operandi\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Hart,Richard J. Smith,John King Fairbank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674775309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674775305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.00w x 1.59d","brand":"Robert Hart","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065038385407,"sku":"9780674775305","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0afec9a1-6088-4f37-90c7-a89b422f3841.jpg?v=1768672729","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robert-hart-and-chinas-early-robert-hart-9780674775305","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}