TREATY PORTS. [A Rich Pageant Of Life Where East And West Agreed To Meet]

ABEND, Hallett.

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New York 1944, Doubleday. Red cloth, very good, 271p., index map, 14 x 21.5 cm.,bright, clean & firm example, in original dust jacket, Mylar protector, spine & lower edges a bit torn & bit loss, contents very clean. * * RARE FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . BASED ON THE 1842 TREATY OF NANKING . . .CHINA AGREED TO OPEN FIVE PORTS TO FOREIGNERS . . . FOR RESIDENCE & TRADE PORTS . . . IN CANTON, XIAMEN, FUZZHOU, NINGBO & SHANGHAI . . * Foreigners were restricted to five ports. There they could live apart and free from Chinese influence. The origins of s open trade between Chinese-Westerners began. Later there were over twenty treaty ports opened. . An excellent historical perspective on the first one hundred years. . The ebs and flows of opium and slaves, extending the system, missions & the ports, the Southern group, North & up river, Hughes, Stimson & Hoover. . The emergence of Shanghai a small walled fishing village on the mud flats. How foreigners transformed this small village into China's greatest trade ports. . Also covering the rise to importance of the southen port of Canton. Its aristocracic ladies with bound feet, images of Gods, wily pick pockets, of Tientsin, Tsinanfu, Tsingtao, Chingkiang, Ningpo, Foochow, Amoy, Swatow, Hong Kong, Macao & a host of other fascinating places. . *** A fascinating resource based on factual information. By and large one of the best books on the subject. . *** CONDITION: This is the RARE FIRST EDITION, bound in the publisher's original red full cloth with gold-stamped spine author, title & publisher. With pictorial end papers of Hong Kong harbor. Contents pristine, no marks or issues. . When present, the original publisher's dust jacket is RARE and seldom found. . INDIVIDUAL COPY DETAILS: . Copy one. About the same as copy bwlow, but lower spine of dust jacket is missing, and a tiny bit at the spine top/head as well, otherwise and excellent example. In the RARE original dust jacket, in Mylar protector, with a small part missint on upper spine right corer & lower spine a larger part missing. Better than the average example. . Copy two is in the seldom found & RARE original dustjacket. There are the usual small parts missing from the spine head, lower edges and corner rubbing, with a touch of damp stain red transfer to the lower spine, Better than the average example. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** HALLETT EDWARD ABEND: [1884-1955]: He was a journalist, going to China in in 1926, as chief correspondant for the New York Times in Peking. .On August 22, 1937, he was among those wounded when a heavy artillery shell exploded in the heart of the international quarter. He was beaten by Japanese military police. His reporting of the "Rape of Nanking" in 1937 exposed the extent of Japanese atrocities in the city. Will Rogers regarded Hallett as perhaps the best informed American on Chinese affairs. . *** BIBLIOGRAPHY: . The author was a specialist on China & Japan, he several fascinating items: JAPAN CAN'T RULE CHINA CAN CHINA SURVIVE ? CHAOS IN ASIA THE GOD FROM THE WEST: A Biography of F. Townsend Ward. JAPAN UNMASKED MY LIFE IN CHINA 1926-1941 TORTURED CHINA TREATY PORTS OF CHINA . *. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 91058001

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