The Feetham Report: Administrative Survey of the Shanghai Settlement, Complete in 3 Volumes (Manchurian Railway International Series, Parts 4-6), 1932

Description & Historical Context

The Feetham Report — Administrative Survey of the Shanghai Settlement, Complete in Three Volumes, 1932

The Japanese-language edition of the celebrated Feetham Report, the landmark administrative investigation into the Shanghai International Settlement, issued in 1932 as Parts Four, Five, and Six of the South Manchuria Railway's International Series and here complete in all three volumes (upper, middle, and lower). Translated for a Japanese institutional readership, the report set out a detailed examination of the governance, finances, and future of the Settlement at a pivotal moment in the history of the treaty-port city.

Few documents capture the legal and administrative intricacy of Shanghai's concession era as fully as this survey, which remains a standard reference for the study of the International Settlement. As an institutional translation issued within the railway's scholarly series, the set carries both the authority of the original investigation and the particular interest of how that investigation was received and circulated in the Japanese sphere. Complete three-volume runs are not easily found.

A substantial primary source for historians of Shanghai, of the concession era, and of the legal and administrative history of modern East Asia.

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