Shanghai French Concession

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Shanghai French Concession

1. A foreign concession in Shanghai, China, governed by France.
   • 1968, O. Edmund Clubb, “The Chinese Communist Party”, in Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932‎^[1], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89:

     The bodies of seven murdered members of Kuo's family were discovered buried in a garden in the Shanghai French Concession in November 1931; the bodies of four others of his relatives were found by the police later.

   • 2009, Desmond Lam, The World of Chinese Gambling‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 25:

     After several years of operations, The Wheel was closed in 1918 amid public displeasure. In the Shanghai French Concession, there were also several popular gambling houses including the Great World (大世界) and Xi Jia Du Chang (席家赌场).

   • [2021 June 29, Pete Sweeney, “China’s Communist Party runs low on creativity”, in Peter Thal Larsen, Katrina Hamlin, editors, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 30 June 2021, Breakingviews‎^[4]:

     The Chinese Communist Party turns 100 this week. A century after it was founded in Shanghai’s French concession, the institution has never been so popular at home or resented abroad.]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shanghai French Concession.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 上海法租界 (Shànghǎi Fǎ Zūjiè)

• Chinese Pidgin English: Fa-lan-sai-side
• French: concession française de Shanghai