The preparation of this volume was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent agency. Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization HIS JOURNALS,1863-1866 edited and with narratives by RICHARD I.SMITH JOHN K.FAIRBANK KATHERINE F.BRUNER Front endpapers: Published by the Council on East Asian Studies,Harvard University Rooftops of Foochow in 1870,from the collection of The Museum of the China and distributed by the Harvard University Press Trade,Salem,Massachusetts. Cambridge (Massachusetts)and London 1991