Affairs of China by Eric Teichman

Author:Eric Teichman [Teichman, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Asia, China, Modern, 20th Century, Political Science, International Relations, Diplomacy, Trade & Tariffs, Treaties, Political Economy, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
ISBN: 9781317217060
Google: v1TlCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-06T01:27:20+00:00

Notes

1 The Chinese name for the Shanghai Foreign Settlement is, or used to be, Ying Tsu-chieh, ‘the English Concession’.

2 Embracing approximately 5,500 and 2,500 acres respectively.

1 An engineering feat rendered necessary by the absence of any firm ground on which to erect the foundations of large buildings.

1 Taipan, a Chinese word applied to the head of a foreign firm.

1 In the fighting of 1932 the Japanese spread the story, which at the time was given wide publicity, that the troops of the Chinese 19th Route Army, who bore the brunt of the hostilities, had before the outbreak moved up to the outskirts of the Settlement with the intention of overrunning and looting the foreign quarter. These troops were no doubt strongly infected with anti-Japanese propaganda and spoiling for a fight; but there is no shred of evidence to support the story that they planned an attack on the Foreign Settlement.

1 The figures for the French Concession for the same year were half a million Chinese and 23,000 foreigners (including 11,800 Russians, 2,600 British, 2,300 French and 1,800 Americans); and for the whole area of ‘Greater Shanghai 5 over three and a half millions.

1 Mr. Feetham in his report endorses the foreign contention that the Land Regulations of 1869 have all the force and sanctity of a treaty; which is an overstatement hardly supported by the evidence.

2 The police force in 1936 included over four thousand Chinese and Indian rank and file, and four hundred and fifty British and two hundred and fifty Japanese.

1 Written at the end of 1937.

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