&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203; Original title: Muji said that the French Concession attracted netizens' dissatisfaction: wake up, there is no concession
Yesterday afternoon, microblog @ Muji released an activity microblog.
Wutong's name is called "WALKER- of the city" - the right turn of the red light in the French concession. The starting point is "MUJI Huaihai 755 flagship store". The jogging between the trees in the French concession is to go to the junction. If the red light is turned, turn right and the green light will go straight.
Among them, the three words' French Concession 'have aroused the dissatisfaction of some netizens.
Some netizens believe that this word with the history of aggression and humiliation is not suitable to be used as a place name to refer to Shanghai now.
The French concession is one of the two concessions in Shanghai (the other is the Shanghai public concession). It is mainly located in Luwan District (incorporated into Huangpu) and Xuhui District of Shanghai, and the narrow strip in the East extends into today's Huangpu District. Shanghai French concession is the earliest, largest and most prosperous of the four French concessions in modern China.
In its heyday, the French concession was bounded by the Huangpu River in the East, Fuxu Road (now Yan'an Middle Road) and aidoya Road (now Yan'an East Road) in the north and separated from the British and American public concession. After the Sino British Nanjing Treaty, France signed the Huangpu treaty with the Qing government in 1845 (also known as the Sino French five port trade regulations: Customs Tariff), It has obtained a series of privileges, such as opening a consulate at the top five in Funing, Guangsha and enjoying extraterritorial jurisdiction. On April 6, 1849, Shanghai Daotai Lingui and mintini officially signed an exchange of letters, and the Shanghai French concession was established. At this time, the French concession was only 986 mu.
In 1853, the French envoys in Shanghai and the British and American envoys signed the Shanghai Anglo American land charter without knowing the Qing government. The Charter nominally unified the concessions of the three countries. At the same time, it made it clear that the concession countries directly handed over the land rent originally handed over to the landlords to the Qing government, which essentially turned the concession into their own territory and denied the original owners' ownership of the land. A year later, the three countries agreed to set up the Bureau of the Ministry of industry. Since then, people in the concession only pay taxes to the Bureau of the Ministry of industry. The concession has become a country within the state, and the Qing government can only accept this reality.
In 1860, the French concession was expanded for the first time, with an area of 1124 mu. In 1869, the envoys of the countries with relations in China approved the constitution of the Council of directors of France and the constitution of land of Britain and the United States at the same time, and the independent status of the French concession was officially confirmed.
The full map of the French concession in 1882. At this time, the French Concession has completed the first expansion, and the British and American concession north of the Pidgin has been merged into a public concession. In 1900, the public concession has completed two expansion, with a total area of more than 30000 mu (22 square kilometers). In 1912, the French Council voted to ask the French consul to request the Beiyang government to expand the French concession. In 1913, Maurice de conty, then French envoy to China, formally asked the Beiyang government to recognize the police power of the roads built across the border. In fact, he forced the Beiyang government to recognize the sovereignty of the French concession over these roads. This is the first time in the history of the concession. In the past, the concession expansion would somehow be carried out through agreement with the government. This time, we simply did not even make superficial efforts. The Yuan Shikai government at that time, fearing the anti yuan activities carried out by the revolutionaries in the concession, agreed to the unreasonable request of the French side in exchange for the French side's arrest of the revolutionaries in the concession. After the formal demarcation in September 1914, the French Concession expanded to more than 15000 mu, more than six times the previous area.
Thus, cross-border road construction has officially become a practical means of expanding concessions, and cross-border road construction area has become a 'quasi concession'. The public concession was greatly encouraged. In the next two decades, large-scale cross-border road construction operations were carried out. On the eve of the Japanese invasion of China, the cross-border road construction area of the public concession reached 47000 mu, even exceeding the area of the public concession itself. It can be said that the beginning of all this is the second expansion of the French concession.
The secteur de l & rsquo; Ouest, secteur central and secteur SUD are the sites seized by the second expansion of the French concession. The large-scale expansion of the French Concession coincided with the first World War and the subsequent Russian October Revolution. A large number of Russian aristocrats came to Shanghai and chose to build luxurious residences in the French concession. At the same time, because the business in the public concession is more developed, there are civilian residential areas such as factory areas and workers' residential areas. There are more Shikumen dwellings in the public concession than in the French concession. Unlike the busy banks, foreign banks and cheap housing that are rife with public concessions, the French concession is represented by the cafe, bakery, and the French Wutong on both sides of the road in Huaihailu Road. The beautiful French Concession has also attracted British and American people working and doing business in the public concession and Chinese rich people in Shanghai during the Republic of China to build houses and residences. The French Concession has gradually become a recognized high-grade residential area on the beach of Shanghai. Today, the former French Concession area is still the most western part of Shanghai.
The Wutong French concession in Huaihailu Road reached its peak in the 30s of last century. Since then, with the Japanese invasion of China, the French Concession became the island of Shanghai in a short time, and was handed over to the puppet Wang Jingwei regime in 1943 by the then puppet regime of Vichy. In its nearly 100 years of existence, the French Concession witnessed the rise and fall of France, the honor and disgrace, and the confusion and humiliation of old China in internal and foreign affairs. The expansion of the French concession was almost imposed on the Chinese government. The prosperity of the French concession was also based on the comprador class selling out national interests.
Today, when we linger in the exquisite foreign houses in the original French concession, we should not forget that behind these exquisite buildings is the history of our country's backwardness and poverty.
At present, Muji official wechat of Muji has deleted the microblog of the activity. However, the Internet has memory. Here, we want to tell Muji that there is no legal concession to sell national interests in China.