Industrial Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Shanghai treaty port (1842–1914)
On the Industrial Revolution map as “Shanghai”
1842–1914 — A treaty port opened by the Opium War. After 1895 foreigners may build factories here, and Shanghai becomes China’s first industrial city of cotton mills, shipyards and banks.
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- Great Divergence and global trade (chapter 11 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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