Heading: (China)
Author:
Title: “Manifesto” - Broadside Protesting French Disregard for Chinese Sovereignty
Place Published: Shanghai
Publisher:Students of Shanghai
Date Published: [January, 1946]
Description:

Text in English on one side, Chinese on the other. 25x18.5 cm. (9¾x7 ¼").

Rare broadside protesting the continued assumption by the French of extraterritorial rights in China. In December 1946, French authorities in Shanghai arrested a French Nazi, Paul Francis Carcopino Tosoli, on charges of transmitting pro-German propaganda from Germany. The prisoner was shuttled to a French warship, to be taken to Saigon to face trial. Chinese authorities attempted to halt the ship from departure, demanding that the prisoner be turned over to Chinese authorities for processing under Chinese judiciary. Most countries that enjoyed extraterritoriality in China - in sum, a form of colonialism - relinquished that privilege by treaty in 1943. France, however, was slow to accede the abolishment of extraterritoriality; the imbroglio addressed by the broadside at hand indicates that France was unwilling to follow international law, causing discord within China. Indeed, extraterritoriality (or "the Unequal Treaties" as they are known in China), a process by which Western powers exerted control over China, remain a source of resentment in China today. No copies are listed in OCLC/WorldCat.

A few minor creases, very good.