No Dogs & Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China

John Murray Press, United Kingdom 2000,

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Auteur

Wood Frances

Éditeurs

John Murray Press, United Kingdom 2000

Thème

CINA China Chine

Description

Jaquette

Non

Etat de conservation

Tres bonne condition

Reliure

Couverture souple

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Non

Premiére Edition

Non

Description

8vo, br. ed, Paperback. The first treaty ports in China were opened in 1843. Here, for nearly a century, foreign traders ruled their own settlements, administered their own laws, controlled their own police forces and ran the customs service. Despite typhoons, disease, banditry and riots, merchants and missionary families in the treaty ports led as far as possible a foreign life. In 1943 the treaty ports were returned to China and most of their inhabitants interned by the Japanese. Yet the record of their residency remains in Shanghai's solid office buildings, in Tientsin's mock Tudor facades, and in the Edwardian villas of Peitaiho and Amoy. The last inhabitants of the treaty ports are also still alive: through their reminiscences and the accounts of their predecessors Frances Wood recalls a foreign life lived in a foreign land. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.