1926 sugie fusazo first edition (1 Ergebnisse)

Good. Map exhibits some restoration, including reinforcements along old fold lines and intersection and minor edge repair. Most significantly, the upper right corner has been reattached from the top border, through the title, to just below the river. Size 21 x 30.5 Inches. A rare bi-lingual Chinese/English map of Shanghai, China, here in its first edition, issued by the Shanghai-Japanese cartographer Sugie Fusaz? (????) in June of 1926, or Showa 2. This is the first of Sugie Fusaz?'s maps to include a panoramic view of the city (more specifically, the Bund), a convention that followed in many later editions. A Closer Look The map focuses on the extraterritorial Foreign Concessions huddled around the confluence of the Hunagpu River (Whangpoo) and Soochow Creek (Suzhou). The Japanese area is highlighted in orange, the British in red, the American in Pink, and the large French Concession in Yellow. The map extends westward along the Extraterritorial Roads, also administered by the Concessions, as far as the Jessfield Road (Zhongshan) Toyoda Factory, precursor of the modern conglomerate Toyota. Shanghai International Settlement The Shanghai International Settlement was created in 1863 when the British and American Shanghai enclaves merged. These concessions were granted to England and the United States as part of the Unequal Treaties that followed the Opium Wars. From about 1854, the settlements were governed by the Shanghai Municipal Council, a British-dominated board of government officials and powerful merchants. The board issued restrictions limiting Chinese habitation on International Settlement territory and oversaw the construction of public services, including trams, a sewage system, highways, and port buildings. The International Settlement expanded several times in the late 19th and early 20th century. In addition, they constructed and administered Extra-Settlement Roads into the surrounding country, which further allowed for informal expansion. It became an enclave of peace and prosperity when the Japanese invaded Chinese Shanghai in 1937, but this abruptly came to an end with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent 1941 invasion of the International Settlement. After the war, the International Settlement lands were returned to Chinese sovereignty. The Bund The Bund is a waterfront area in central Shanghai. The name is derived from the old German term, 'bund,' meaning simply embankment or causeway. Many Asian colonial cities supported a bund, but none became more famous or iconic than the Shanghai Bund. The area centers on the section of Zhongshan Road within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River, facing Pudong, in the eastern part of Huangpu District. The Bund usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as well as some adjacent areas. It is one of the most famous tourist destinations in Shanghai and a designated historic zone. Lining the Huangpu River, the Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings that once housed important banks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France, United States, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as the consulates of Russia and Britain, a newspaper, the Shanghai Club and the Masonic Club. The Bund lies north of the old walled city of Shanghai and was initially a British settlement. A building boom at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century led to the Bund becoming the major financial hub of East Asia. The former French Bund, east of the walled city, was more a working harbor. Shanghai French Concession - ????? On April 6, 1849, Lin Kouei (??), the Chinese governor of Shanghai, granted French Consul Charles de Montigny (1805 - 1868) a proclamation ceding extraterritoriality to France to establish a trading colony. The Concession initially occupied a narrow collar of land around the northern end of the Chinese City, sou.