HANKOW.

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Foreign Settlement, Hankow, China. A scarce map, unrecorded institutionally, displaying Hankow's emergence as an industrial and commercial centre, as well as the decline of colonial power in the former treaty port.Following its designation as a treaty port in March 1861, Hankow grew with the presence of Britain and other foreign powers into an economic powerhouse to rival Shanghai. Its various industries included tobacco, cotton, iron, steel, and oil. This map, oriented west-north-west, shows the city's expatriate quarter on the western bank of the Yangtze. Markers along the foot divide it into the different concessions: French, Japanese, and three present and former Special Administrative Districts (S.A.D.). On the extreme left, the Chinese part of the city is drawn out of scale.In the era in which this map was produced, the age of Western imperial incursion in the city was over, with former concession either repatriated or, in the case of the British sector, placed under joint administration. The plan refers to two "ex-S.A.D." areas: following China's declaration of war on Germany in 1917, it seized the German concession, re-designating it S.A.D. One, while in 1920 the Russian part of the city became S.A.D. Two. In both cases, S.A.D. status was revoked in 1929, returning these areas to full Chinese control. This left only S.A.D. Three, created from the old British concession by the 1927 Chen-O'Malley Agreement in the wake of Chinese popular demonstrations against British im

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