Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Historic Shanghai
IT has long been an anomaly, if not a reproach, that such an important city as Shanghai should have had its history neglected and unwritten in spite of its having been the starting point of many an epoch-making movement in the remoulding of China's foreign intercourse.
From an international point of view Shanghai may well be regarded as the most interesting exponent of the system whereby foreign communities at the treaty ports are constituted into exterritorial and municipal settlements, - quaint little republics fraught with. Significance not only as pledge of concerted action among foreign powers, but also as an object-lesson of modern civilisation among the benighted millions of China.
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