(book reviews)

Pacific Affairs;  March 22, 1996 ;     616 words ......including an informative appendix on treaty port newspapers and periodicals, which address...Press. In the end, he argues that the treaty port system in Japan, and the larger issue...characterized the Meiji era. Rather, the treaty port system remains central to understanding...

A foreign life in a foreign land Historical Notes

The Independent - London;  June 20, 1998 ;     579 words ......from the volumes of memoirs written by treaty port inhabitants. These invariably touch...or "Missee's". Daily life for some treaty port residents appeared to be one long battle...reduced all recorded conversations in treaty port memoirs to a rather idiotic level. I...

ROK

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      19 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 ROK Republic of (South) Korea Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Chosen

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      20 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 Cho|sen (o'sen) Jpn. name of Korea Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Christopher A. Reed. Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism,...

China Review International;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......technologies from Europe and Japan to China's treaty port sector and chart the history of the...Chinese capitalism being born in the treaty port sector as modern technology crashed...having responded, Who cares? We're in a treaty port, we don't fear the Qing court. What...

China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin

Jewish Exponent;  April 24, 1997 ;     679 words ......the Russian civil wars of the '20s and found refuge in the Treaty Port close to Peking. Maynard was brought up more by her amah than...on the girl who lived her insular life in the cocoon of the Treaty Port. Later she was made aware of some of the hardships and even...

A Culture Builder

Literary Review of Canada;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......He plied his trade in the city we now know as Tianjing, a treaty port. The term designated places in a powerless China where the...by their own laws and institutions. The very concept of a treaty port, restricting China's sovereignty over its own territory, discloses...

treaty port

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      22 words ...trea·ty port • n. historical a port bound by treaty to be open to foreign trade, esp. in 19th- and early 20th-century China and Japan.

At Nuremberg, Germany

AP Worldstream;  June 18, 2006 ;     26 words ...AP Worldstream 06-18-2006 Japan 0, Croatia 0 At Munich, Germany Brazil vs. Australia At Leipzig, Germany France vs. South Korea Copyright 2006, AP News All Rights Reserved

IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1904: Russia to Protect Corea

International Herald Tribune;  January 16, 2004 ;     96 words ......the following interesting statement: ''Russia will refuse, in the interests of peace, to agree to the opening of Wiju, as a treaty port, and will protect the Corean sovereignty at all costs. It is impossible to allow Japan to secure a preponderant influence...

FIFA World Youth Championship Results

AP Worldstream;  June 15, 2005 ;     44 words ...The Associated Press AP Worldstream 06-15-2005 Japan 1, Benin 1 Australia vs. Netherlands Group E At Tilburg, Netherlands Canada 0, Colombia 2 Italy vs. Syria Group F At Emmen, Netherlands Switzerland 0, Brazil 1 Nigeria vs. South Korea Copyright 2005, AP News All Rights Reserved

Boyhood dreams; Memories of China.("The Ford of Heaven: A Childhood in...

The Economist (US);  February 4, 2006 ;     423 words ......Emperor of Heaven. The foreign powers who occupied it in 1860, in the wake of the second opium war, called it a concession or treaty port; the Chinese the ford of heaven . Foreigners in the treaty ports lived charmed, if claustrophobic lives, protected from the...

Shanghai's early lines deemed too 'eccentric'

China Daily;  April 18, 2007 ;     311 words ......China's first railway line was destroyed because it was deemed to be too eccentric. As one of the cities that opened as a treaty port in the 19th century, Shanghai witnessed the country's first railway, Wusong Railway line, built by the British in 1876. However...

Sino-Vietnamese border town bustling with trade (1)

Xinhua News Agency;  September 27, 2002 ;     258 words ......Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Along the several thousand kilometers of the Sino-Vietnamese border, Dongxing city, a 400- year- old treaty port, stands out as one of the busiest trade ports in southwest China. Cargo ships from the two countries berth on docks of the...

Uneasy Partners: The Conflict Between Public Interest and Private Profit...

The China Journal;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Shanghai Bank [HSBC]). He attributes this decline to the "treaty port culture" of the hong's "taipans", and the triumph of indigenous...sources is admirable. The concepts of "colonial culture" and "treaty port culture" are valuable, though I think he expects the former...