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3 unusual facts about Shanghai International Settlement


Eleanor Frances Lattimore

Eleanor Frances Lattimore (June 30, 1904, Shanghai, China – May 12, 1986, Raleigh, North Carolina) was an American author and illustrator born in what was called the American Compound in Shanghai and raised in China where her father, David Lattimore, taught English at a Chinese government university.

International Settlement

Shanghai International Settlement, territory in Shanghai leased to Britain and the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Stirling Fessenden

Stirling Fessenden (1875–1943) - an American lawyer, the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1923 to 1929.


China Marines

The term China Marines originally referred to those United States Marines from the 4th Marine Regiment who were stationed in Shanghai, China during 1927 - 1941 to protect American citizens and their property in the Shanghai International Settlement during the Chinese Revolution and the Second Sino-Japanese War.


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