Shangha: Semi-Colonized City
Shanghai was a semi-colonized city with areas called concessions. What is the meaning of “concessions” in this case, what were the two main concessions, and what kinds of privileges did the residents of the concessions have? Concessions were areas of land that colonizing countries took control of and made their own hub in the foreign country. The two main concessions were the French concession and the British concession. In the French concession, the French were a minority and were surrounded […]