The story of the humiliation of the Chinese in the concession

Have you heard the story that dogs and Chinese are not allowed to enter?

The concession outside the county of Shanghai is unfamiliar. Foreigners live their lives in the concession and seem to have nothing to do with the outside world. Exchanges between the concession and the city were mostly limited to doing business, and the pidgin between the county seat of Shanghai and the concession was always bustling, and many transactions were made here.

Although foreigners are doing business, they are rarely seen here, they do not speak Chinese, and they do not understand the Chinese way of doing business, so they hire Chinese to do things for them. These Chinese are compradors, and the original compradors are often businessmen, they have a lot of business experience, many of them have already dealt with foreigners in Guangzhou in their early years, they can understand English, and they speak English that is not pure, but also effective, to serve foreigners. In the early days of the opening of the port, when foreigners were separated from the people and land in Shanghai, they almost did everything, from the company's internal affairs to going out to buy, as long as they were dealing with the Chinese, they always had to rely on them.

These people are the only communicators between China and the West, in a sense, the more compradors, the bigger the foreigner's business, the more contact between foreigners and China The unique English spoken by the compradors, called "pidgin", has become popular little by little since then, but at that time, the contact between foreigners and Chinese was still so limited.

In addition to business and recreation, the rest of the foreigner's time was spent building the concession to make this small area as comfortable and beautiful as possible. The first hardships have passed, and the simple two-story buildings are long gone. Foreigners invited their own architects to build Western-style houses here, and for this purpose+ even went to great lengths to bring in bricks and tiles from England.

Leased land: refers to the area that the imperialist country forcibly acquires by another country through unequal treaties for its use and management for a certain period of time, and the sovereignty still belongs to the lessor country during the lease period. Such as:

Kowloon Concession, Tianjin Concession, Shanghai Concession, etc.

I don't know how to be bullied, but it is a fact that a large number of people went to the concession to make a living. Before 97, there were still people desperately running to the concession.

Shanghai's concession bai is a strange one to us

Raw. Foreigners are at ease in our territory of the Chinese, writing on our special hotel that Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter, treating us as untreatable, making us coolies, the markets we operate have been robbed by foreigners, but we are incompetent foreigners are at ease in our Chinese territory, writing in our restaurants that Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter, treating us as inappropriate people, making us coolies, the markets we operate have been robbed by foreigners, but we cannot do anything.

There were too many, and they didn't let you in at that time, and when they saw you, they beat you.

The most famous is that Chinese and dogs are not allowed.