treaty port

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      39 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 treaty port a port that must be kept open for foreign trade according to the terms of a treaty, as, formerly, any of certain ports in China, Japan, or Korea Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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...

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...

Her strength is her weakness Theatre

The Sunday Telegraph London;  October 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ......who is courting her. Her mother's scoundrelly partner Sir George Crofts, who also wants to marry her, may or may not be her father...highly satisfying performance from Richard Johnson as Sir George Crofts. A Broadway legend gets ready to reminisce, the band strikes...

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...

Michael Coveney at last night's first night.(Review)

The Daily Mail (London, England);  October 11, 2002 ;     267 words ......studying law. Her status as an independent New Woman is shaken when she discovers that her mother and the crusty old Sir George Crofts have been operating a chain of brothels in Brussels, Ostend, Vienna and Budapest. How she rides the earthquake of revelation...

Triangulating the ROM

Journal of Canadian Studies;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......it is also possible to rethink this figuration and place George Crofts also at the centre of the ROM's history. His selfless collecting...Walker, on pourrait rviser cette figuration pour inclure George Crofts au centre de l'histoire du MRO. Sa gnreuse collecte d'artefacts...

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...

Tale of Jews who fled to Shanghai now told Thousands sought safety in...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 20, 1997 ;     593 words ...Ingrid Wilmot stopped eating apple cores just a few years ago. She had picked up the habit as a girl in this free-wheeling treaty port during World War II, when food and dignity were scarce among the Jews who fled to China from the Nazi juggernaut in Europe...

Jason Goodwin chronicles his pleasurable quest for the perfect cup of tea

The Boston Globe;  September 7, 1991 ;     632 words ......well understand why he details it with pleasure. For Goodwin, the experience came in Xiamen (formerly Amoy), the South China treaty port from which tea was first shipped directly to England in the 17th century. In his quest -- a cleverly conceived one, the results...

Sinositis

Jerusalem Post;  February 19, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Alex Auswaks Jerusalem Post 02-19-1999 NO DOGS AND NOT MANY CHINESE. Treaty Port Life in China 1843-1943 by Frances Woods. London, John Murray. 368 pp. 25. THE WORKERS OF TIANJIN, 1900-1949 by Gail Hershatter...