China's Foreign Places : the Foreign Presence in China in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1943

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.ISBN : 9789888139286 Contents Preface Acknowledgements Timeline Treaty Ports and Other Foreign Stations Principal Characters Introduction Treaty Ports Aigun (Aihun) 璦琿 Amoy (Xiamen) 廈門 Antung (Dandong) 丹東 Baku (Magong) 馬公 Canton (Guangzhou) 廣州 Changsha (Changsha) 長沙 Chefoo (Yantai) 煙台 Chengtu (Chengdu) 成都 Chimmo Bay (Shenhu Wan) 深滬灣 Chinchew Bay (Quanzhou Wan) 泉州灣 Chinkiang (Zhenjiang) 鎮江 Chinwangtao (Qinhuangdao) 秦皇島 Chungking (Chongqing) 重慶 Chusan (Zhoushan) 舟山 Cumsingmoon (Jinxingmen) 金星門 Dalny/Dairen (Dalian) 大連 Foochow (Fuzhou) 福州 Haichow (Haizhou) 海州 Hangchow (Hangzhou) 杭州 Hankow (Hankou) 漢口 Harbin (Harbin) 哈爾濱 Hokow (Hekou) 河口 Hong Kong (Xianggang) 香港 Ichang (Yichang) 宜昌 Kashkar (Kashgar) 喀什 Kiukiang (Jiujiang) 九江 Kiungchow (Qiongzhou) 瓊州 Kongmoon (Jiangmen) 江門 Kowloon (Jiulong) 九龍 Kuling (Lushan) 廬山 Kwangchowwan (Zhanjiang) 湛江 Kweilin (Guilin) 桂林 Lappa (Hengqin Dao) 橫琴島 Lintin Island (Neilingding Dao) 內伶仃島 Lungchow (Longzhou) 龍州 Lungkow (Longkou) 龍口 Macao (Aomen) 澳門 Mengtse (Mengzi) 蒙自 Mokanshan (Moganshan) 莫干山 Mukden (Shenyang) 瀋陽 Nanking (Nanjing) 南京 Nanning (Nanning) 南寧 Newchwang (Yingkou) 營口 Ningpo (Ningbo) 寧波 Pakhoi (Beihai) 北海 Peitaiho (Beidaihe) 北戴河 Peking (Beijing) 北京 Port Arthur (Lüshun) 旅順 Port Hamilton (Geomun-do) 巨文島 Saddle Islands (Shengsi) 嵊泗島 Samshui (Sanshui) 三水 Sanmun Bay (Sanmen Wan) 三門灣 Santuao (Sandu) 三都 Shanghai (Shanghai) 上海 Shanhaikwan (Shanhaiguan) 山海關 Shasi (Shashi) 沙市 Soochow (Suzhou) 蘇州 Swatow (Shantou) 汕頭 Szemao (Simao) 思茅 Tachienlu (Kangding) 康定 Taiwan-fu (Tainan) 台南 Taku (Dagu) 大沽 Tamsui (Danshui) 淡水 Tengyueh (Tengchong) 騰衝 Tientsin (Tianjin) 天津 Tsinan (Jinan) 濟南 Tsingtao (Qingdao) 青島 Wanhsien (Wanzhou) 萬州 Weihaiwei (Weihai) 威海 Wenchow (Wenzhou) 溫州 Whampoa (Huangpu) 黃埔 Woosung (Wusong) 吳淞 Wuchow (Wuzhou) 梧州 Wuhu (Wuhu) 蕪湖 Yochow (Yueyang) 岳陽 Yunnan-fu (Kunming) 昆明 Russian Frontier Stations Japanese Stations in the North-East Yangtze River Ports-of-Call West River Ports-of-Call Tibetan Ports Appendix Notes Glossary of Terms Bibliography Index 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.