Shanghai: Capitalists, Communists, and the Jewish Dynasties Who Helped Build the City

Gregory Bracken

doi:10.1177/00961442241258942

Shanghai: Capitalists, Communists, and the Jewish Dynasties Who Helped Build the City

Gregory Bracken

Spatial Planning and Strategy

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Abstract

Books on Shanghai’s history tend to fall broadly into two categories: nostalgia for the “colonial” era and descriptions (often grim) of the Communist period that followed. Shanghai was not, in fact, a colony; it was a Treaty Port, one of five opened by the British after the end of the First Opium War in 1842 (the others being Canton [Guangzhou], Amoy [Xiamen], Foochow [Fuzhou], and Ningpo [Ningbo]). These ports increased in size, wealth, and number until 1943 when the system was ended with the Treaty for the Relinquishment of ExtraTerritorial Rights in China. [...]

Original language	English
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Urban History
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442241258942
Publication status	Published - 2024

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Keywords

Shanghai
capitalism
communism
Jewish dynasties
treaty port

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