Title China's foreign places : the foreign presence in China in the treaty port era, 1840-1943 / Robert Nield

Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxxix, 359 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Maps -- Treaty ports and other foreign stations -- Principal characters -- Introduction -- Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary of terms Summary During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers--principally Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany and Japan--signed treaties with China to secure trading, residence and other rights in cities on the coast, along important rivers, and in remote places further inland. The largest of them--the great treaty ports of Shanghai and Tientsin--became modern cities of international importance, centres of cultural exchange and safe havens for Chinese who sought to subvert the Qing government. They are also lasting symbols of the uninvited and often violent incursions by foreign powers during China's century of weakness. The extraterritorial privileges that underpinned the treaty ports were abolished in 1943--a time when much of the treaty port world was under Japanese occupation. China's Foreign Places provides a historical account of the hundred or more major foreign settlements that appeared in China during the period 1840 to 1943. Most of the entries are about treaty ports, large and small, but the book also includes colonies, leased territories, resorts and illicit centres of trade. Information has been drawn from a wide range of sources and entries are arranged alphabetically with extensive illustrations and maps. China's Foreign Places is both a unique work of reference, essential for scholars of this period and travellers to modern China. It is also a fascinating account of the people, institutions and businesses that inhabited China's treaty port world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-346) and index Notes Print version record Subject Harbors -- China -- History Harbors -- Asia -- History Harbors -- History Customs administration -- China -- History Port districts -- China -- History TRANSPORTATION -- Ships & Shipbuilding -- Pictorial. HISTORY -- Asia -- China. Customs administration Diplomatic relations Harbors Port districts Ausländer Ausländischer Staat Vertragshafen Außenbeziehungen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen SUBJECT China -- Commercial treaties China -- Foreign relations -- 1644-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024027 China -- Foreign relations -- 1912-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024028 Subject Asia China China Genre/Form Commercial treaties History Form Electronic book ISBN 9789888313532 9888313533

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