How Long to Read Entering China's Service

How Long Does it Take to Read Entering China's Service?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 40 minutes to read Entering China's Service by Robert Hart

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Robert Hart was one of those empire builders of the Victorian age who had a long and nearly uninterrupted experience in China, from 1854, when as a young Irishman from Belfast he landed in Ningpo, until 1908, when as a man in his seventies he finally retired to England. His years as the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service have been copiously recorded in letters to his London agent, beginning in 1868, published as a 2-volume collection, The IG. in Peking (Harvard, Belknap Press, 1975). In 1970, a second lode of Hart materials came to light, the 77 volumes of his journals, begun on the day of his arrival in China in 1854 and ending at his departure in 1908, with two short but significant gaps in the first decade where he himself destroyed entries of too personal a nature. Entering China's Service presents a complete and annotated transcript of the surviving journals through 1863, alternating with chapters devoted to Hart's North Ireland background, the China he encountered, the Ch'ing officials who trusted him, and the unfolding of his career. His reactions to the Chinese as well as to his fellow Westerners cast an invaluable light on nineteenth-century China.

How long is Entering China's Service?

Entering China's Service by Robert Hart is 460 pages long, and a total of 115,000 words.

This makes it 155% the length of the average book. It also has 141% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Entering China's Service Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 28 minutes to read Entering China's Service aloud.

What Reading Level is Entering China's Service?

Entering China's Service is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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