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All about Shanghai :A standard guidebook

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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. A British Consul was appointed in 1843 and the small foreign outpost soon started to attract settlers from many coun- tries, in particular Americans and French. In 1863 the British and American zones merged and the consolidated enclave became known as the In- ternational Settlement. The French, who had set up their own administration, did not join in the merger, and so the French Concession remained independent until its return to China, together with the International Settlement, in 1943, in the midst of the Second World War.

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915.1132 Let a

Publisher

Hong Kong : Oxford University Press., 1983

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xviii, 225 pages

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0195815947

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915.1132

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Tourism industry

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