"The foreign areas look for all the world like modern Western cities, with great modern Temples of Finance, massive business premises, and well-built residences."

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British EmpireColonialismBelgian Colonial EmpireForeign concessions in TianjinBritish concession of Tianjin
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Hersey, “A reporter at large: homecoming. I: the house on New China Road”, New Yorker, 10 May 1982, 54, cited in Maurizio Marinelli, “Making Concessions in Tianjin: Heterotopia and Italian Colonialism in Mainland China.” Urban History 36, no. 3 (2009): 404 Tientsin, North China published by the Tianjin Rotary Club in 1934.