page_title: Concessions in Tianjin
section_title: British concession (1860–1943)
hierarchical_section_title: Concessions in Tianjin / British concession (1860–1943)
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard from the 1920s showing Victoria Road, the main thoroughfare of the British concession of Tientsin (Tianjin).
context_page_description: The concessions in Tianjin were concession territories ceded by the Chinese Qing dynasty to a number of European countries, the U.S. and Japan within the city of Tianjin. There were nine concessions in old Tianjin altogether. These concessions also contributed to the rapid development of Tianjin from the early to mid-20th century. The first concessions in Tianjin were granted in 1860. By 1943, all the foreign concessions, save the Japanese concession, had ceased to exist de facto.
context_section_description: The British concession, which contained the trade and financial centres, was situated on the right bank of the river Haihe below the native city, occupying some 200 acres (0.81 km²). It was held on a lease in perpetuity granted by the Chinese government to the British Crown, which sublet plots to private owners in the same way as was done at Hankou.
  The local management was entrusted to a municipal council organized on lines similar to those in Shanghai. The seat of government was the stately Gordon Hall, situated on the financial street called Victoria Road (now Jiefang Lu).
  The British concession was blockaded by the Japanese during the Tientsin incident in June 1939, causing a major diplomatic crisis.
  The Japanese occupied the British concession upon their declaration of war against Britain on 7 December 1941 until the end of the war.
  The British concession in Tianjin was formally returned to China with the Sino-British Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China, ratified on 20 May 1943, although the Chinese could not take possession until the end of the war ended the Japanese occupation.
caption: Victoria Road, British concession, 1920s
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