Katherine Bruner (31 results)

Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. vg/vg, edgewear/few creased pgs, dj chipped/sm tears/lgt soil. Essays by 18 of the World's leading psychologists. 1st (NAP) edition. Binding is hc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards have light. Slight toning to spine. Content has light age tone. Ex libris to prelim page. No DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Spine cover faded. ; Printed in 1964; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. First Edition, First Printing. Hard cover 8vo in green cloth w/gold spine titles. Fine and unmarked book in Near Fine DJ w/several short tears. xiv, 427pp inc. Notes, Bibliography, Index. 448 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Harvard University Asia Center, 1986. Book has a slightly loose first signature, a slight gap between top area binding and spine cover, light wear to corners. otherwise in great condition, strong binding, bright pages and unmarked text; some cosmetic wear but an overall sturdy, well-kept copy with clean interiors. Dust jacket has mild rubbing , modest wear to edges and corners, a tear to outer top corner of front side. in very good condition, now in archival cover.

Hardback. Condition: New. 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.Richard 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second printing. Fine in a good dustwrapper with a creased front flap, tears and tanning.

Condition: New. pp. 600.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 492 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Cloth. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two volumes. Volume One: xxvi + 825 pages with frontispiece, illustrations, maps and diagrams. Volume Two: pages 829-1625. Index. Glossary. Illustrated. Introduction by L.K. Little.

First Edition. Library copies. Very good cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrappers, now mylar-sleeved. The set remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 2 volumes; 26 cm. Contents: V. 1. 1868-1890 -- v. 2. 1891-1907. Subjects: Hart, Robert 1835-1911; Campbell, James Duncan 1833-1907; Chinese Maritime Customs; Customs administration China History Sources; Customs administration; China; China Commerce Great Britain History 19th century ; Sources. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Two volume set. Green cloth/gilt. Fine condition. The DJs in mylar are sunned to spine else fine. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall.

Condition: New. pp. 600.

First Edition. Library copies. Very good cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrappers, now mylar-sleeved. The set remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 2 volumes; 26 cm. Contents: V. 1. 1868-1890 -- v. 2. 1891-1907. Subjects: Hart, Robert 1835-1911; Campbell, James Duncan 1833-1907; Chinese Maritime Customs; Customs administration China History Sources; Customs administration; China; China Commerce Great Britain History 19th century ; Sources. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two volume set. 26 x 18.5 cm. xxvi 1625pp. Illustrated, maps. Bound into green cloth. Previous owner's name stamp to front and rear pastedowns as well as foredges. Portrait of Hart taped to front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

582 p. 23,5 cm Encuadernación editorial en tela con sobrecubierta en papel. Estado de conservación: Muy bien. .

Hardback. Condition: New. 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.Richard 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.

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2 Vols., 8vos, 1337pp. As new hardback set in shrink wrappers.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2 volumes. Very good hardback copies in very good dustjackets. xxviii, 1625pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. Almost like new. xiv, 427pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Dust Jacket may NOT BE INCLUDED.CDs may be missing. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Condition: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 1600 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Two Volumes.The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England. 1975. Two volume total: 1625pp. Photo Plates. 20 photographs. Introduction by L.K. Little. Label of previous owner: H.T. Wong. HIST DEPT. E WASH UNIV. CHENEY WA. 99004. Robert Hart's contribution to the commercial stability of China, through the efficient collection of taxes and duties, was outstanding. As Inspector General, he was in charge of Chinese Maritime Customs. Martin Lynn recounts the experiences of Robert Hart employed by the Chinese in the dying phases of the Qing Dynasty. This article first appeared in SACU's China Now magazine in 1988 Robert Hart was witness to many of the major events of late nineteenth century Chinese history, a period when the country was wrestling with the twin problems of foreign intervention and the need to modernise. He was to live through four foreign invasions of China, the Taiping Rebellion of 1852-64, the Boxer rising of 1900, the attempted partition of the country by the West and the eventual crumbling of power of the last of the great Chinese imperial dynasties, the Qing. An Ulsterman, born in Portadown in 1835, he arrived in China aged only 19 as an assistant and interpreter in the British consular service. After service in Hong Kong, Ningbo and Guangzhou (Canton) he resigned in 1859 and became Deputy Commissioner of Customs at Canton. For the rest of his career until his death at the age of 76 in 1911 he was to be an employee of the Chinese government. He received a Chinese peerage in 1889 and a British Knighthood in 1893. In 1863 Hart became Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, a position he was to hold for the next 48 years. The Customs Service grew out of the 'treaty port' system, with its foreign privileges and extra-territorial rights, that were imposed on China by the Western powers during the mid-nineteenth century. Its function was to regulate trading relations between China and the Western powers and to collect customs revenue for the Chinese government. Although a department of the Chinese government, the Customs Service was almost entirely staffed with foreigners in its upper echelons. Its Inspector General was always a Westerner. In collecting revenue for Beijing however, the Customs Service provided the government with a regular income independent of interference by the provincial authorities, thereby strengthening the dynasty's position against its rivals. But by the end of the century, China fell more and more into debt due to the indemnities it was forced to pay following defeats by foreign powers, as well as loans raised abroad. Much of the Customs revenue came to be pledged to outsiders for many years in advance. Custom-made post The Customs Service, and Hart's role in it, illustrates the West's influence in China in the late nineteenth century, with China's independence slowly being eroded by outsiders. But it also illuminates China's first steps in modernisation: it was the first department run on western lines. By the turn of the century it employed nearly 18,000 Chinese and 1,500 foreigners. It was also responsible for China's western-style Postal Service, established in 1896. The revenues of the Customs Service were used to pay for the modernisation of China's military forces and for the building of railways, arsenals and factories in the reform and 'self-strengthening' movements of the 1880s and 1890s. In many ways the Customs Service was Hart's own creation. Like it, he stood at the interface between China and the West, representing foreign influence in China, yet being used repeatedly by the Chinese government as its representative in dealing with foreign powers. He had, in the words of one historian, 'a profound sense of loyalty and obligation to the Chinese government'. Both volume in fine condition. Heavy book, extra postage likely.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Not ex-library. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Ownership Inscription of Academic Andrew Taylor, VG bright set in publishers cloth in slightly scruffy edgeworn dustjackets. 1st edition, 1st issue. ISBN 0674443209.

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 of modern China and the era of foreign privilege there.".