Hi everyone, Las La Montgomery here again with the latest episode of the China History

Podcast.

And this one is dedicated to Mikey F and all his gang up in the beautiful northern port city of Dahlian.

For today we're looking at a man who came from the Emerald Isle, the nation of Ireland.

And even though most of his life was spent in China, he still remembered as a great Irish man and certainly someone who left his mark in Chinese history.

Today we look at one of my personal heroes, Sir Robert Hart.

In the deepest, darkest part of the maw of Jim Saadjoy at the tip of the Kalun Peninsula in Hong Kong,

there's a street on the east side of Nathan Road. It's called

Hart Avenue. It starts at Mottie Road, right where good old Spring Dare is located, the most famous place in TST for Peking Duck. Hart Avenue, then runs north for

about a block before it juts to the left and then heads northwest and dumps out into

Carnarran Road.

But what always made Hart Road so dang confusing was for no reason whatsoever

there's this T intersection just before Hart Road makes its tilt to the west.

And when you turn right at the T, that too is also Hart Road, and that branch dumps you off in Chatham Road.

It was always so confusing to me that area as Hart Road was seemingly

two different streets with the same name. Robert Hart was such an important person from

Chinese history and truly one of the most powerful

and influential Westerners to ever live in China if there ever was a man worthy of having

two streets named after him within the

bowels of Jim Sajoy it was most certainly Sir Robert Hart first Baronet

CMG K CMGG, I'm willing to take a guess that most listeners have probably never heard of Robert Hart.

During my nine years in Hong Kong, I walked down Hart Avenue hundreds of times and even I didn't know who the street was named after.

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