Library

On November 17, 1843, Shanghai officially opened as a port. Subsequently, British, French and American concessions were established one after another, and the number of foreigners coming to Shanghai continued to increase. Some of them recorded what they saw, heard, and felt in Shanghai and the events they experienced from their own perspective in the form of travel notes, speeches, memoirs, diaries, etc. These recorded English documents describe the settlement in the early days of the opening of the port, the social conditions of foreigners, and the family lives of foreigners. The content is informative, reliable, humorous, and of great historical value. See Shanghai through the eyes of foreigners, listen to their stories about the early days of Shanghai's opening as a port, and understand the foreign concessions, foreign society and Sino-foreign relations in the early days of Shanghai's opening.