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Later, Boone proposed to develop an American settlement, and in 1848, the Shanghai County approved the proposal. On 25 June 1863, American consul George Seward signed an agreement with the head of Shanghai County, Huang Fang (黃芳), to create the American Concession in Shanghai, which also confirmed the boundary of the area. [1]
Shanghai tram, 1920s. On 11 July 1854 a committee of Western businessmen met and held the first annual meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC, formally the Council for the Foreign Settlement North of the Yang-king-pang), ignoring protests of consular officials, and laid down the Land Regulations which established the principles of self-government.
English: Location Map of Shanghai International Settlement. Date: 5 April 2015: Source: Own work: ... Concession française de Shanghai; Concession internationale de ...
The International Settlement began with the 138 acres of the British settlement, which was increased to 470 acres in 1848. The addition of the American area and a number of subsequent additions brought the total area to 5,584 acres. Including the 2,525 acres of French Concession, the total area was eventually to reach 12.66 square miles. [10]
The Consulate General of the United States in Shanghai is one of the five American diplomatic and consular posts in the People's Republic of China. [ 1 ] First established in 1844 following the signing of the Treaty of Wanghia , the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai had a presence until the conclusion of the Chinese Communist Revolution and it ...
The Battle of Muddy Flat, also called the Battle of Nicheng (泥城之戰) by the Chinese, was a small land/naval battle on the borders of the Shanghai Concession areas of what would later become the Shanghai International Settlement between a British, American, and Small Swords Society alliance and units of the Qing Imperial forces with a fleet of mercenary pirate allies on April 3–4, 1854. [1]
21 September 1863 (after the 1862 Proposal to make Shanghai an independent "free city" was rejected) an International Settlement in Shanghai was created by union of the American and British concessions (consummated December 1863); in 1896 the concession was expanded. On 7 July 1927, a Chinese city government of Greater Shanghai was formally ...
American Concession may refer to: American Concession (Shanghai) , an area of Shanghai which joined with British Concession to create the International Settlement in 1863 The American concession in Tianjin , administered on a de facto basis between 1869–1880 under the aegis of the British concession