New PDF release: China’s Foreign Places: The Foreign Presence in China in the

in the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the imperial powers—principally Britain, the U.S., Russia, France, Germany and Japan—signed treaties with China to safe buying and selling, place of dwelling and different rights in towns at the coast, alongside vital rivers, and in foreign places extra inland. the biggest of them—the nice treaty ports of Shanghai and Tientsin—became smooth towns of foreign value, centres of cultural trade and secure havens for chinese language who sought to subvert the Qing govt. also they are lasting symbols of the uninvited and sometimes violent incursions by way of international powers in the course of China’s century of weak spot. The extraterritorial privileges that underpinned the treaty ports have been abolished in 1943—a time while a lot of the treaty port international used to be below jap occupation.

China’s remote places presents a historic account of the hundred or extra significant overseas settlements that seemed in China in the course of the interval 1840 to 1943. lots of the entries are approximately treaty ports, huge and small, however the ebook additionally comprises colonies, leased territories, inns and illicit centres of alternate. info has been drawn from quite a lot of assets and entries are prepared alphabetically with large illustrations and maps. China’s overseas is either a different paintings of reference, crucial for students of this era and visitors to trendy China. it's also a desirable account of the folks, associations and companies that inhabited China’s treaty port world.

Robert Nield is the writer of The China Coast: alternate and the 1st Treaty Ports.

“Robert Nield’s encyclopaedic insurance of the websites of international energy in pre-1949 China, and their surviving strains, levels from Aigun to Yunnan-fu and calls in any respect ports in among. this is often an informative and tellingly specific advisor to an international that's now mostly misplaced, yet which however keeps to hang-out glossy China.”
—Robert Bickers, college of Bristol; writer of having caught in for Shanghai and The Scramble for China: overseas Devils within the Qing Empire, 1832–1914

“A marvelous contribution to figuring out the international presence in China and the commercial push to arrive each nook of the large kingdom. not just has Robert Nield visited the majority of his over eighty outposts yet his broad study in newspapers and files deals an immensely useful contribution to the topic. it will likely be greatly valuable to researchers and intrepid travellers.”
—Frances wooden, writer of The Blue consultant to China (with Neil Taylor) and No canine and never Many chinese language: Treaty Port existence in China 1843–1943

“It’s a excitement to notice that China’s distant places is a good-looking quantity. Care was once taken over the format, and the construction values are excessive. It merits a spot at the cabinets of either own and formal libraries.”
— Peter Gordon, Asian assessment of Books