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Robert Hart, Bart., GCMG Inspector General of Customs and Post, Peking [set in hard bound volume] + photograph and clippings re Congress (CARTON 1)
Wedding picture of European couple with Chinese mandarin guests (CARTON 2)
Conferences (CARTON 2)
Interiors (CARTONS 1 and 2)
1 red invitation in English to Hart from Viceroy of Chihli to dinner at the "Naval Secretariate” (sic) 23 Feb 1894 (CARTON 3)
List of mourners (CARTON 3)
NOTES
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2
These notes are partially based on notes previously prepared by the Rev. Carl Smith.
Robert Hart was Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1863-1907. See Juliet Bredon, Sir Robert Hart: The Romance of a Great Career (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1909); Stanley Wright, Hart and the Chinese Customs (Belfast: Wm. Mullen & Sons, 1950); John King Fairbank et al., eds. The I.G. in Peking: Letters of Robert Hart, Chinese Maritime Customs, 1868-1907 (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press at the Harvard University Press, 1975); Katherine F. Bruner et al., eds. Entering China's Service. Robert Hart's Journals, 1854-1863 (Cambridge, Mass. & London, Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1986).
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Here, Hart refers to Sir Robert Hart; Robert refers to his grandson.
A SONG FROM SHA TAU KOK ON THE 1911 REVOLUTION
Very few documents remain from the New Territories which refer to the 1911 Revolution, or which display any interest in the political disputes which lead up to it. One revolutionary document, a ferocious anti-Manchu and anti-Kang Yu-wei pamphlet, survives among the Yung Sze-chiu papers from North Sai Kung,1 and must represent a type of revolutionary ephemera to be found in the area at that date but no longer remembered - Yung Sze-chiu presumably picked it up in his local market town of Sai Kung about 1908. In general, however, local sources, both written and oral, pay little attention to the Revolution.