About the Author

Robert Nield is the author of The China Coast: Trade and the First Treaty Ports.

Reviews

Robert Nield's encyclopaedic coverage of the sites of foreign power in pre-1949 China, and their surviving traces, ranges from Aigun to Yunnan-fu and calls at all ports in between. This is an informative and tellingly detailed guide to a world that is now mainly lost, but which nevertheless continues to haunt modern China. -- Robert Bickers, author of Getting Stuck in for Shanghai and The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914, University of Bristol A fascinating history of the people, institutions, and businesses in these foreign settlements... Highly recommended. Choice