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The End of the American Empire

Edit CounterPunch 13 Apr 2016
You’d like it. Great atmosphere. Delicious food ... Marines to China and Japan, where they imposed our first treaty ports ... They subordinate other states to a great power informally, without the necessity of treaties or agreements ... But they won’t make time to consider treaties, nominees for public office, or budget proposals ... A plurality of goods in the South China Sea are in transit to and from Chinese ports or transported in Chinese ships ... ....

Indulge in beachside luxury at Hoi An's Nam Hai resort

Edit South China Morning Post 19 Mar 2016
It is also only 10km north of the charming historic port and heritage site of Hoi An and ... Up to the 19th century, this charming town was the major trading port on this coast for Chinese, Japanese and, later, European merchants but the advent of steam and the opening of treaty ports on China's southern coast left it forsaken for more than a century....

Mainland puts huge value on foreign heritage, in stark contrast to Hong Kong’s attitude to its past

Edit South China Morning Post 10 Mar 2016
At a recent talk in Hong Kong, the author of a book on treaty port heritage in China ......

Shanghai Art, Design, History at Asian Art Museum

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Shanghai Bund during a Festival, 1963. By Zhang Yuqing (Chinese, 19091993), published by the Shanghai People’s Fine Art Publishing House. Chromolithograph on paper. Private collection.  Private collection ... The special exhibit at the Asian Art Museum shows Shanghai’s evolution over the past 160 years from a small port to the sophisticated, frenetic-paced metropolis that it is today ... One such “treaty port” was Shanghai ... 200 Larkin St....

There is a lot more to Yichang than hydro-engineering

Edit South China Morning Post 02 Jan 2016
If walls had ears and buildings could talk then the old Butterfield & Swire shipping office, former British consulate, Christian Mission residence and colonial post office in Yichang, on the banks of Yangtze river, would make captivating dinner-party guests ... They have little if any time to ponder the port city’s past and present ... It became a treaty port with the signing of the 1876 Chefoo (Yantai) Convention with Britain ... ....

Remembering Ramon H. Myers (Hoover Institution)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Nov 2015
(Source. Hoover Institution). Ramon H ... His contribution to Hoover was extraordinary ... His first book, The Chinese Peasant Economy (Harvard University Press, 1970), was a fundamental interpretation of Chinese economic history, the first in a line of important scholarly contributions to the subject, including The Chinese Economy, Past and Present (Wadsworth Press, 1978) and The Treaty Port Economy in Modern China ... distributed by ... (noodl....

In China post-1949, foreigners paid a price whether they chose to remain or leave

Edit South China Morning Post 07 Nov 2015
Import-export firms based in former treaty port cities, such as Shanghai and Tientsin (now Tianjin), found their businesses at a standstill due to the embargo.Nevertheless, they were expressly prohibited from dismissing staff, whose wages had to be paid through hefty overseas remittances ... They docked in Kowloon, after stops in Shanghai and other southern ports, unharmed but penniless, more than a week later....

The Literary Churchill – Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose: life imitates art?

Edit The Irish Times 07 Oct 2015
The author might have referred to Churchill’s condemnation of the handing over of the “Treaty Ports” in Ireland, Berehaven, Cobh and Lough Swilly, to the Irish Free State in 1938 by British prime minister Neville Chamberlain as a gesture of good will....

The Death of the “Pacifist” Constitution: Japan’s Return to Its Martial Roots

Edit CounterPunch 29 Sep 2015
Realistically appraising the situation, the shogunate bowed to pressure, agreeing to establish “treaty ports.” But the economic dislocations produced by Japan’s incorporation into the world economy, and the blow to the regime’s prestige among the people, lead to the violent overthrow of the government during the Boshin War of 1867-1869 ... Burdened though it was by the unequal treaties imposed by the U.S....

FIVB World Tour returns to China for $150,000 FIVB Xiamen Open (FIVB - Fédération Internationale ...

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2015
(Source. FIVB - Fédération Internationale de Volleyball). FIVB World Tour returns to China for $150,000 FIVB Xiamen Open ... The third consecutive year for a FIVB World Tour stop in Xiamen, the event is being played at Guanyinshan Gold Beach ... Xiamen was a treaty port in the 19th century and one of the four original Special Economic Zones opened to foreign investment and trade when China began economic reforms in the early 1980s ... TEAM CHINA....

The days after the Pacific war ended: unsettling times in Hong Kong

Edit South China Morning Post 29 Aug 2015
Church and temple bells rang joyously," Michael David Kwan, then an 11-year-old member of an affluent family living in the treaty port, will later recall in his 2000 memoir, Things That Must Not Be Forgotten ... Western former residents of the treaty ports, such as Gilkey, were released from Weihsien camp but most had no home to go to and all their possessions had been looted....

Arts Worlds: Artists, Images, and Audiences in late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai

Edit Caixin Online 22 Aug 2015
This accessible examination into the art world of fin-de-siècle Shanghai reveals the vibrant influence of the Western-style Chinese-language newspaper Shenbao. By Juan Jose Morales. Shanghai's rise to prominence in the second half of the 19th century was partly due to its status as a treaty port from 1842, but probably more so to having escaped unscathed by the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) that laid waste to much of the country ... ....

IN PICTURES: 26 family stories that tell history of Shanghai's Jewish community

Edit South China Morning Post 13 Aug 2015
This is a collection of 26 biographical accounts taken from Jewish families who first came to the Treaty Port of Shanghai in the mid-19th century. Meyer interviewed a number of the 20th-century descendants herself, some of whom have since died ... While many of the well-known families made their fortunes in the treaty port and some lived very privileged lives, there was always an inherent racism underlying community ties....
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