Robert Hart And China S Early Modernization

Author : Richard Smith,John K. Fairbank,Katherine Bruner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684172948

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Robert Hart and China’s Early Modernization by Richard Smith,John K. Fairbank,Katherine Bruner Pdf

"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."

Author : Sir Robert Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:907453434

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Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization by Sir Robert Hart Pdf

Author : Katherine F. Bruner,John K. Fairbank,Richard J. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684172627

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Entering China's Service by Katherine F. Bruner,John K. Fairbank,Richard J. Smith Pdf

Robert Hart was one of those empire builders of the Victorian age who had a long and nearly uninterrupted experience in China, from 1854, when as a young Irishman from Belfast he landed in Ningpo, until 1908, when as a man in his seventies he finally retired to England. His years as the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service have been copiously recorded in letters to his London agent, beginning in 1868, published as a 2-volume collection, The IG. in Peking (Harvard, Belknap Press, 1975). In 1970, a second lode of Hart materials came to light, the 77 volumes of his journals, begun on the day of his arrival in China in 1854 and ending at his departure in 1908, with two short but significant gaps in the first decade where he himself destroyed entries of too personal a nature. Entering China's Service presents a complete and annotated transcript of the surviving journals through 1863, alternating with chapters devoted to Hart's North Ireland background, the China he encountered, the Ch'ing officials who trusted him, and the unfolding of his career. His reactions to the Chinese as well as to his fellow Westerners cast an invaluable light on nineteenth-century China.

Author : Samuel C. Chu,Kwang-Ching Liu
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1563244586

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李鴻章 by Samuel C. Chu,Kwang-Ching Liu Pdf

Li Hung-chang (1823-1901) was a Chinese statesman particularly notable for his promotion of industrialization and advocacy of bureaucratic reform. Most of the papers in this volume were first presented in two panels devoted to Li at the 1987 annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. The volume is divided into six parts: introduction ("The Beginnings of China's Modernization"), the rise of Li Hung-chang, Li in the role of a national official, Li as diplomat, Li as modernizer, and conclusion (including a bibliographical essay). Paper edition (unseen), $22.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Samuel C. Chu,Kwang-Ching Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315484679

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Liu Hung-Chang and China's Early Modernization by Samuel C. Chu,Kwang-Ching Liu Pdf

This is a study of Li Hung-chang which represents a collaboration of Li experts among Chinese and Western scholars. The biography examines the beginnings of China's modernisation; the Confucian as a patriot and pragmatist; his formative years, 1823-1866; and other aspects of his life.

Author : Robert Hart
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015066987846

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The I. G. in Peking by Robert Hart Pdf

Robert Hart's forty-five-year administration of China's customs service was a unique achievement. In these letters Hart speaks to us directly from a time long past in China, but a time that may seem only yesterday to a Western reader. The result is a primary source for the history of modern China and the era of foreign privilege there. Bearing sole responsibility for the Chinese Maritime Customs as its Inspector General, Hart built up an international staff of thousands, facilitated foreign trade, gave the late-Ch'ing court its principal new revenues, and fostered China's modernity in administration, schools, naval development, postal service, and many other lines. Behind the scenes Hart was also a diplomat who settled the Sino-French war, changed Macao's status, got boundaries delimited with Burma and India, and mitigated the disasters of imperialism. His career at Peking, coinciding with that of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, represented the constructive side of the unequal treaty system and Victorian Britain's informal empire in East Asia. The publication of the great I. G.'s weekly or fortnightly letters to his confidant and London commissioner, James Duncan Campbell, gives us an intimate, inside view of Hart's problems and methods. He appraises his employers in China's foreign office, the Tsungli Yamen, and comments pithily on the complex flow of events and personalities. He quotes the Confucian Classic but, even more, the Latin poets. His personal life is revealed--standing long hours at his writing desk, finding solace in the violin, keeping his own counsel, constantly isolated by his responsibilities. Having no confidant in Peking, he explains himself to his loyal agent in London. The Hart-Campbell letters, after five years' editing and annotation and with an informed introduction by Hart's final successor as foreign I. G., L. K. Little, thus take their place as one of the great historical treasures that bring a vanished era back to life.

Author : Hans Van de Ven
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231137386

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Breaking with the Past by Hans Van de Ven Pdf

From 1854 to 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue available to China’s central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China’s harbors and surveyed the Chinese coast. It oversaw a college training Chinese diplomats; translated legal, philosophical, economic, and scientific documents; organized contributions to international exhibitions; and pioneered China’s modern postal system. After the 1911 Revolution, the agency began managing China’s international loans and domestic bond issues, and in the 1930s, it created a coast guard to combat smuggling. The Customs Service was central to China’s post-Taiping entrance into the world of modern nation-states and twentieth-century trade and finance, and this is the first comprehensive history of the Customs Service’s activities and truly cosmopolitan nature. At times, the Service kept China together when little else did.

Author : Wong Lawrence Wangchi
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789882370517

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Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Wong Lawrence Wangchi Pdf

This book discusses how Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices were imported, adapted and even transformed into varied contexts in East Asia. In particular, authors in this rich volume focus on the role translation played in the processes of modernization in China, Japan, and Korea in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Author : Mary Tiffen
Publisher : Tiffania Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780957035300

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Friends of Sir Robert Hart by Mary Tiffen Pdf

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.

Author : Jenny Huangfu Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108471329

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Qing Travelers to the Far West by Jenny Huangfu Day Pdf

This fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing reveals how Sino-Western engagements transformed traditions, institutions, and networks of communications.

Author : Isidore Cyril Cannon
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789622099616

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Public Success, Private Sorrow by Isidore Cyril Cannon Pdf

The story of an Englishman who lived through the last years of the Qing dynasty, was trapped in the British Legation during the Boxer uprising and went on to occupy a number of senior positions in the Imperial Customs as Commissioner of Customs in various ports, Shanghai Postmaster and first Director of the important Customs College.

Author : Zhao Changtian
Publisher : Shanghai Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1602202389

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An Irishman in China by Zhao Changtian Pdf

It was a long journey—in more ways than mere geography—from a childhood in Northern Ireland to becoming the most influential foreigner in 19th-century China. This historical novel follows the life of Robert Hart, whose career in China spanned more than half a century during the turbulent last decades of the Qing dynasty. As the Qing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service, Hart was involved in many major events of late Imperial China. While negotiating his way through civil dissent and foreign conflicts, he played an instrumental role in the country's modernization. A rare foreigner who learned the language and developed a deep interest in and sensitivity to the culture, Hart had a passion for his adopted country but continually struggled in his dual role as British subject and employee of the Chinese government. Hart's personal life was not without its own challenges as he grappled with his relationship with his Chinese lover and the children he had with her, as well as his British wife and their family together. Long periods of conflict, loneliness and doubt lurked behind the professional triumphs for which he became world-renowned. Based on exhaustive historical research, the story is enlivened by dialogue and plot elements suggested by the author's deep knowledge of Hart and the country and times in which he lived. The reader will be rewarded with insight into this pivotal period in Chinese history through the lens of the life of one fascinating individual.

Author : John King Fairbank,Martha Henderson Coolidge,Richard J. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813194288

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H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China by John King Fairbank,Martha Henderson Coolidge,Richard J. Smith Pdf

Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (1910-18). At the time of his death, Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world, and his works played a profound role in shaping the contours of Western scholarship on China. Begun as a labor of love by his protégé, John King Fairbank, this lively biography based primarily on Morse's vast collection of personal papers sheds light on many crucial events in modern Chinese history, as well as on the multifaceted Western role in late imperial China, and provides new insights into the beginnings of modern China studies in this country. Half-finished when Fairbank died, the project was completed by his colleagues, Martha Henderson Coolidge and Richard J. Smith.

Author : Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0674002490

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Chinese History by Endymion Porter Wilkinson Pdf

Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. Because the writing of history has always played a central role in Chinese politics and culture, special attention is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 723 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004217829

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Korea: The Past and the Present (2 vols) by Anonim Pdf

Established in 1982, the British Association for Korean Studies has published nine sets of Papers from 1991 to 2005, the outcome of conferences, study days, workshops. The themes of Korea past and Korea present were selected to give the editors and BAKS council the widest choice of options in terms of scholarship, subject matter, interest.