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The Shanghai International Settlement ( Chinese: 上海公共租界) originated from the merger in the year 1863 of the British and American enclaves in Shanghai, in which British and American citizens would enjoy extraterritoriality and consular jurisdiction under the terms of unequal treaties agreed by both parties. These treaties were ...
Footnote 79 In fact, during the second half of the 1920s, at the peak of the Chinese nationalist movement, the conspicuous International Settlement of Shanghai was considered ‘the hard knot at the centre of the problem’ Footnote 80 in Sino-foreign relations and had attracted various ideas from both within the Settlement Footnote 81 and ...
- Wanshu Cong, Frédéric Mégret
- 2021
The Shanghai International Settlement ( Chinese: 上海公共租界) originated from the merger in the year 1863 of the British and American enclaves in Shanghai, in which British and American citizens would enjoy extraterritoriality and consular jurisdiction under the terms of unequal treaties agreed by both parties. These treaties were ...
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The Bund. The Bund [a] is a waterfront area and a protected historical district in central Shanghai. The area centers on a section of Zhongshan Road (East Zhongshan Road No.1) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River in the eastern part of Huangpu.
Abstract. At the intersection of imperial rule and private power, Shanghai rose to international prominence in the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. It did so by taking advantage of the extraterritorial status and the dynamic, cosmopolitan population of the International Settlement.
- Wanshu Cong, Frédéric Mégret
- 2021
A primary source collection directly related to the history of Shanghai and the International Settlement. The eighth collection in the China and the Modern World series, Records of Shanghai and the International Settlement, 1836–1955, provides a primary source collection vital to understanding and researching the social, political, and economic history of not just the British-dominated yet ...
Aug 15, 2016 · As a result, immigration to Shanghai halted, and the community uprooted. Japanese authorities dissolved the International Settlement and relocated residents identified as enemy nationals to internment camps, while moving the German and Polish Jewish community to designated areas in the Hongkew district.
