Jackson, Isabella

Treaty ports in modern China: law, land and power

by Bickers, Robert A., Jackson, Isabella

fromRoutledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

0 Type: Book

"This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports the key strategic places on Chinas coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the …

Treaty ports in modern China: law, land and power

by Bickers, Robert A., Jackson, Isabella

fromRoutledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

0 Type: Book

"This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports the key strategic places on Chinas coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the …

Treaty ports in modern China. Law, land and power

by Jackson, Isabella, Bickers, Robert

fromRoutledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

0 Type: Book

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 th…

The Shanghai Municipal Council, which managed the International Settlement at the heart of Shanghai from 1854 until 1943, profoundly shaped the development of the city politically, socially and geographically. It was dominated by British expatriates and settlers, but they shared…