Irishman in China: Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs by Zhao Changtian

Irishman in China: Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs

Zhao Changtian

192 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

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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...

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