BETWEEN the wars Carl Crow's Handbook for China was a standard reference book for the foreign visitor to that country. It was first published in Shanghai in 1913 as The Travelers' Handbook for China, and four further editions appeared, a fact which testifies to its quality, popularity, and durability.
THE first foreigners settled in Shanghai in 1843. The Opium War had ended, and by the terms of the Treaty of Nanking of 1842, China opened up Canton, Foochow, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai as trade - or treaty - ports. The provi- sions of the treaty thus allowed the British to establish factories (trading firms) and permitted British merchants and their families to reside legally on Chinese soil. …