Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports
Author : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1868
Category : China
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Author : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1868
Category : China
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Author : Nicholas Kitto
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789887963929
China's treaty port era extended from the 1840s to 1943, during which time foreigners had a significant presence. This book contains more than 700 photographs of many buildings from this period, most of them commissioned by non-Chinese people and companies. Many argue that they should never have been built, let alone still be standing. But this book is not concerned with the rights and wrongs of how these buildings came to be. It simply celebrates their existence. A significant number are innately beautiful and all of them embody a history that has clear and present links to our own time and thus remain relevant. This book was driven by the author's interest in the history of China's treaty port era, in which several generations of his family played a part. It is a tribute to the buildings that remain as a reminder of the past, and a guide to where to find them.
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Page : 142 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1866
Category : China
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Author : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 1881
Category : China
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Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 1868
Category : China
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Author : Robert Nield
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9888139282
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.
Author : En-Sai Tai
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
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ISBN : 9781016376839
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317266285
This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. Topics covered include land and how it was acquired, the flow of people, good and information, specific individuals and families who typify life in the treaty ports, and technical advances, exploration, and innovation in government.
Author : Nicholas Belfield Dennys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108045901
This comprehensive guide to key cities of China and Japan was published in Hong Kong and London in 1867.
Author : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 1864
Category : China
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