Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization

His Journals, 1863-1866

Richard J. Smith

John King Fairbank

Katherine Bruner

    Acknowledgments

    Preface

    1. Robert Hart in China's History

    Hart Meets the Proper Time

    Shanghai 1864: The Anglo-Ch'ing Partnership

    2. Journals: 6 December 1863-15 May 1864

    3. Peking 1864: Establishing the IC. Status

    The I.G. Under the Tsungli Yamen

    The I.G. Over the Maritime Customs Service

    4. Journals: 1 June 1864-25 October 1864

    5. Hart at Work: Facets of Administration

    Financing the Growth of the Service

    Touring the Southern Ports

    Administrative Problems at Shanghai

    The Yangtze Ports and Hart's Return to Peking

    6. Journals: 26 October 1864-18 June 1865

    7. Anglo-Ch'ing Reform Measures

    The Restoration Reform Program

    Hart's "Bystander View" and the Chinese Response

    8. Journals: 2 July 1865-2 March 1866

    9. Travels to Europe, 1866

    The Pin-Ch'un Mission

    Hart's Marriage

    10. Journals: 7 March 1866-7 August 1866

    11. 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: Foreigners' Positions in the Imperial Maritime Customs
    B: Letters from Hart to E. C. Bowra
    C: Letters from Hart to Hester Jane Bredon

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Glossary/Index

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John King Fairbank was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard University.