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Map of the concessions Western ships anchored alongside the European concessions in 1874. The foreign concessions in Tianjin (formerly romanized as Tientsin) were concession territories ceded by the Qing dynasty to a number of European countries, the United States and Japan within the city of Tianjin. There were altogether nine foreign ...
The establishment of the concession is vague and seemed to fall in the hands of Chinese daotais and yamens more than American diplomats. According to Denby, "a tract of land" was given to the U.S. by the Qing diplomat Chonghou to compensate for the American role as an intermediary in the Convention of Peking in 1860, along with the British and French concessions.
Map of the European Union in the world, with Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions. Danish Gold Coast; Danish India; Danish West Indies Frederiksstad on Saint Croix, Danish West Indies, 1848; Faroe Islands; Greenland
Tianjin [a] is a direct-administered municipality in northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea.It is one of the nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the 2020 Chinese census.
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, built in 1923 and The Customs House, built in 1927, Shanghai The foreign concessions continued to exist during the mainland period of the Republic of China. The Asia and Pacific theatre of the First World War would be another major incident changing the ownership of concessions in China with Japanese expansion.
The Italian concession of Tianjin had an area of nearly one square mile and was initially located in a swamp area near the Hai River, with a few poor houses of Chinese farmers. The Italian government built infrastructure and a number of public buildings and by 1938, it had a population of 14,879 Chinese and 739 Europeans (nearly all Italians). [5]
Established in 1862, the Tianjin British Municipal Council in the British Concession was the highest administrative agency in British Tianjin. Gordon Hall, built in 1890, became its headquarters. It was indirectly under the leadership of the British Ambassador and the Foreign Office. The Bureau had multiple custody groups, branch offices, and ...
The Austro-Hungarian concession of Tianjin (Chinese: 天津奥租界; pinyin: Tiānjīn ào zūjiè, German: österreichisch-ungarische Konzession, Hungarian: Osztrák–magyar tiencsini koncesszió) was a territory in the Chinese city of Tientsin occupied by Austria-Hungary between 1902 and 1920.