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The
British Concession
or
Settlement
was a foreign
enclave
(a "
concession
") in
Shanghai
within the
Qing Empire
which existed from around 1845 until its unification with the
American area
, located directly north of it across
Suzhou Creek
to form the
Shanghai International Settlement
in 1863.
The settlement was bordered to the north by the right bank of Suzhou Creek at its confluence with the
Huangpu River
, to the east by the Huangpu itself, and to south by the former
Yangjing Creek
, now
Yan'an Road
, which would be the future boundary with
the French Concession
.
History
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The British occupied Shanghai during the
First Opium War
and it was opened to foreign trade by the terms of the
Treaty of Nanking
. The British settlement was established by the 1845 Land Regulations, undertaken on the initiative of the intendant
Gong Mujiu
.
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On 20 November 1846, a formal concession was established; this was expanded on 27 November 1848. After a proposal to make Shanghai an independent "free city" was rejected in 1862, the British area agreed to merge with the American on 21 September 1863 as the
Shanghai International Settlement
. This occurred in December of the same year.
[
citation needed
]
See also
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References
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Cassel, Par (2003), "Excavating Extraterritoriality: The "Judicial Sub-Prefect" as a Prototype for the Mixed Court in Shanghai",
Late Imperial China
, vol. 24, pp. 156?182
.