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"The Gateway to China" by Mary Ninde Gamewell is a travelogue and social-historical portrait written in the early 20th century. Through illustrated vignettes it presents Shanghai as a cosmopolitan “model settlement” and microcosm of China in transition, highlighting its blend of ancient customs and modern institutions across civic life, commerce, education, philanthropy, and missionary work.
The opening of the work sets its aim: to capture Shanghai’s fast-changing scenes and kindle understanding of the Chinese people, then sketches the city’s growth from river silt and fishing hamlet to treaty port and commercial hub, its refugee surges during the T’aiping turmoil, the short-lived first railway, and the stabilizing rise of the Imperial Maritime Customs under Sir Robert Hart. It details the International Settlement’s governance, the Mixed Court and prisons, police corps (British, Sikh, and Chinese), volunteers, fire brigade, a patchwork postal system, and an energetic Health Department
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