HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Shanghai International Settlement, Treaty Ports, Chinese Historiography
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Treaty ports: under the unequal treaties signed in the wake of the opium, within these ports westerners leased areas of land (known as. Treaty port chinese and the emergence of new classes. Wars, china was obliged to open various ports to western trade. Because of extra territoriality, westerners also needed their own courts and police forces. They also needed to levy taxes to pay for municipal services. Certain parts of some chinese coastal cities thus became effectively western controlled. (the largest example of this was shanghai. International settlement was created, which included two thousand or more foreigners. Settlement were entitled to vote for the shanghai municipal council which gradually developed all the functions of a city government. Chinese residents were taxed but not allowed representation. ) 2. compradors: this new class emerged in the wake of western economic penetration and hence were largely based in the treaty ports, the key difference between the compradors and traditional.
