China's Foreign Places: The Foreign Presence in China in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1943
By Robert Nield.
Description
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 incursion...
ISBN(s)
9888139282, 9789888139286
