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American ambassadorial presence began in earnest in 1862 with the establishment of the American legation in Beijing, and a consul was established in Tianjin in 1866. [3] With the American government preoccupied mainly with economic matters in Japan and the American Philippines, [4] governance of the settlement relied largely on the actions of ...
Tianjin [a] is a direct ... Britain, Japan, Germany, France, America, Austro-Hungary, and Italy). The city was governed by this council until August 15, 1902, when ...
Postcard from the American concession c. 1900 Troops of the 15th Infantry on parade, 1931. The United States never requested or received a concession in Tianjin, but a de facto concession was administered from 1869 to 1880, principally under the aegis of the British mission. In 1902, the informal American territory became part of the British ...
The Treaty of Tientsin, also known as the Treaty of Tianjin, is a collective name for several unequal treaties signed at Tianjin (then romanized as Tientsin) in June 1858. The Qing dynasty , Russian Empire , Second French Empire , United Kingdom , and the United States were the parties involved.
Tianjin, in 1900, consisted of two adjacent, but very different sub-divisions. To the northwest was the ancient high-walled Chinese city, one mile (1.6 km) on each side. To the southeast, one to two miles away (1.6 to 3.2 km), along the Hai River , was the treaty port and foreign settlements , a half-mile wide (0.8 km) . [ 2 ]
The MSS had determined that the United States had infiltrated the student movement by various means, [147] including the use of the U.S. government-owned VOA radio station as an instrument of psychological warfare, as well as the cultivation of pro-American ideologies among Chinese students studying abroad as a long-term strategy. [148]
The Tianjin State Security Bureau (Chinese: 天津市国家安全局; pinyin: Tiānjīn Shì Guójiā Ānquán Jú; TSSB) is a bureau of the Chinese Ministry of State Security in Tianjin which serves as the direct-administered municipality's intelligence service and secret police.
Former Wilhelm Street. Pelldram's drafted plans for the German concession included a small section under the British concession, present-day Xiaobailou Subdistrict. [2] The US consul in Tianjin at the time, Charles Denby Jr., protested, claiming that the district was under American jurisdiction, granted to the US for its role as mediator during the Convention of Peking in 1860.