No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943

by Frances Wood

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071956400X
• ISBN13: 9780719564000
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.