British Concession (Shanghai)
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The British Concession or Settlement was a foreign enclave (a "concession") in Shanghai within the Qing Empire which existed from around 1845 until its unification with the American area, located directly north of it across the Soochow Creek to form the Shanghai International Settlement in 1863.
The settlement was bordered at north by the right bank of the Soochow Creek before it flows into the Huangpu, at east by the Huangpu, and at south by a channel, the Yang-King-Pang which will be the future boundary with the French concession.
History[]
The British occupied Shanghai during the First Opium War and it was opened to foreign trade by the terms of the Treaty of Nanking. The British settlement was established by the 1845 Land Regulations, undertaken on the initiative of the intendant .[1] On 20 November 1846, a formal concession was established; this was expanded on 27 November 1848. After a proposal to make Shanghai an independent "free city" was rejected in 1862, the British area agreed to merge with the American on 21 September 1863 as the Shanghai International Settlement. This occurred in December of the same year.[citation needed]
See also[]
- Shanghai International Settlement
- American Concession (Shanghai)
- Shanghai French Concession
- List of former foreign enclaves in China
References[]
- ^ Cassel, Pär (2003), "Excavating Extraterritoriality: The "Judicial Sub-Prefect" as a Prototype for the Mixed Court in Shanghai", Late Imperial China, 24, pp. 156–182.
- States and territories established in 1845
- States and territories disestablished in 1863
- Shanghai International Settlement
- Concessions in China