Licent’s Museum• Licent’s Museum was set up in 1914 in

Tianjin• Open to public in 1928, with the name “

Beijiang (北疆)Museum”, meaning “the museum of the northern territory” in Chinese

• The war against Japanese broke out in 1937 and Licent went back to France.

• In 1952 the government of Tianjin became in charge of the museum and changed the name to “Tianjin Natural History Museum”

Tianjin Natural History Museum

Beijiang Museum

Tianjin’s Location In China

Tianjin

Beijing

Shanghai

Inner Mongolia

Special link: concession

Showing something to a Chinese student

Licent

ConcessionsConcession (territory): an area within one

country that is administered by another, usually conceded by a weaker country to a stronger one.

In Chinese history concessions are sections of land that foreign countries acquired from unequal treaties, most of which are around the coast line of China.

History timeline of French concession in Tianjin

Evils…

French Concession in Tianjin

French government and Qing Dynasty signed a treaty and acquired the concession, 439 acres

Expansions: 1. 1900 expanded west 4 times, 2360 acres 2. 1916 expanded farther west despite the resentment of the public

1920s more modern buildings went up (mansions, shopping malls, hotels, banks), became the business center of Tianjin

1943 the French government agreed to give up the concession (27)

Facts of the concessions:countries inside countries

Out of law government regulations (unequal treaty clause), opium trading, bawdyhouses

Little government control, location of transporting Chinese labors overseas (piggy boys—slaves), to provide labor in colonial expansion

Foreign countries gained right to use the land for docking, building, and forever living from unequal treaties

1845-1911, 27Pictures (1) (2)

Soldiers guarding the concession

You’re NOT allowed to get in, man

Brawls and fights in the concessions