The Shanghai Bund above image reproduced with the generous permission of Simon Fieldhouse.
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No. 1. The McBain Building (Asia Building) No. 2. The Shanghai Club No. 3. The Union Building 
No. 5. The Nissin (NKK) Building  No. 6. The Russel & Co. Building No. 7. The Great Northern Telegraph Company Building
No. 9. The China Merchants Bank Building No. 12. The HSBC Building No. 13. The Customs House
No. 14. The China Bank of Communications Building No. 15. The Russo-Chinese Bank Building (Shanghai Gold Exchange) No. 16. The Bank of Taiwan Building
No. 17. The North China Daily News Building No. 18. The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China Building  No. 19. The Palace Hotel (Peace Hotel (south wing)).
No. 20. The Sassoon House (Peace Hotel (north wing)) No. 23. The Bank of China Building No. 24. The Yokohama Specie Bank Building
No. 26. The Zangtsze Insurance Association Building No. 27. The Jardine Matheson (EWO) Building No. 28. The Glen Line Building 
No. 29. The Banque de l'Indochine Building No. 33. The Consulate-General of the United Kingdom  22- Broadway Mansions
Signal Tower Monument to the People's Heroes 23- Huangpu Park
25- The Russian Consulate 26- Garden Bridge 24- Astor House
 
  Highlights of the Bund 27- General Post Office
     
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Japanese panorama from 1930 (click for larger image).
Panorama from 1920 (click for larger image).
Model in Shanghai museum (click for larger image).
 
The Shanghai International Settlement  began originally as a purely British settlement. It was one of the original five treaty ports which were established under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking at the end of the first opium war in the year 1842. American and French involvement followed close on the heels, and distinct areas of settlement for the Americans and the French were drawn out to the north and south of the British settlement respectively. In 1854 a united municipal council was created to serve all three settlements, but in 1862, the French concession dropped out of the arrangement. The following year the British and American settlements formally united to become the Shanghai International Settlement.

As more foreign powers entered into treaty relations with China, their nationals also became part of the administration of the settlement, but it always remained a predominantly British affair, at least until the late 1930s when Japan's involvement became of increasing importance. Unlike the colonies of Hong Kong and Weiheiwei which were sovereign British territories, the Shanghai International Settlement always remained Chinese sovereign territory. Hence when the British declared war against Germany in 1939, German nationals continued to operate freely within the territory of the international settlement.

The international settlement came to an abrupt end in December 1941 when Japanese troops stormed in immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor. In early 1943, new treaties signed by Chiang Kaishek's free Chinese government with Britain and British India on the one hand, and with the United States on the other hand, brought to an end the extraterritorial privileges which had been enjoyed by British subjects and American citizens for one hundred years.
 
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