onvenient for the self-governing foreign residents to be grouped together in specific areas, so there developed settlements or "concessions" that were set aside for them. Shanghai once had British, French, and American concessions, but the British and American communities merged to form the International Settlement (Chan 119).
The name of Shanghai relates to its position near the sea, for the word means "up from the sea." The city today has a population of nearly 11 million. The shaping of the city around spheres of influence demarcated by foreign concession a
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