The I. G. in Peking. Letters of Robert Hart. Chinese maritime customs 1868-1907

by John King Fairbank, Katherine Frost Bruner, eds Elizabeth

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Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975. 2 volumes, large 8vo, pp. xxvi, 4 , 1-825, 3 ; vi, 4 , 829-1625, 5 ; original full green cloth; fine. 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

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