People

A. G. Bray布雷

architect

British architect who completed the design of the Shanghai Club building (opened 1910) after the death of H. Tarrant.

Alexander Michie米契

1833–1902 · marine engineer, Municipal Council member, merchant

British engineer who founded the Pootung Foundry in 1856, Pudong's first modern factory, and later sat on the Municipal Council.

Anatol Michaelovitch Kotenev郭泰纳夫

b. 1882 · Municipal Council archivist, author

Russian-born Municipal Police officer who wrote two histories of the Mixed Court and Council, and from 1931 was the Council's first full-time archivist.

Arnold Jaques Vissière微席叶

1858–1930 · French consul-general (acting), sinologist

French diplomat and sinologist who came to China as interpreter in 1882, was acting consul-general at Shanghai in 1892 and later taught Chinese in Paris.

Atkinson & Dallas通和洋行

architect, developer

British architects and engineers in Shanghai, founded 1898 by Brenan Atkinson and Arthur Dallas; designers of the Banque de l'Indochine Building.

B. Edan爱棠

French consul, customs inspector

French consul who joined the 1854 notice taking over customs collection and in 1860 agreed the French Concession's extension to the river.

Balfours巴尔弗斯

architect

Design firm credited in Chinese Wikipedia with the Shanghai Municipal Council slaughterhouse (1933 Old Millfun) in Hongkou.

Brenier de Montmorant白来尼

1813–1894 · French consul-general

French consul-general 1864-69 who dissolved the French Municipal Council in 1865; the 1866 regulations then put the police under the consul-general.

Bright Fraser佛兰赛

architect

Architect of Palmer & Turner whom the Shanghai gazetteer credits as designer of Broadway Mansions (1930–34).

Buissonnet皮少耐

d. 1870 · silk merchant, French Municipal Council chairman

French silk exporter who came to Shanghai in 1854, founded the French Concession volunteer corps in 1862 and chaired the first French Municipal Council.

Butterfield & Swire太古洋行

est. 1866 · Firm

The Yorkshire-Liverpool house that opened in Shanghai in 1867 and founded the China Navigation Company in 1872 to compete on the Yangtze.

Cai Jun蔡钧

Shanghai daotai, Qing minister to Japan

Shanghai daotai from 1897 who refused the 1898 demands to enlarge both settlements and was dismissed in 1899 after the second Siming Gongsuo incident.

Chen Heqin陈鹤琴

1892–1982 · educator, Municipal Council Chinese education officer

Early-childhood educator who from 1928 ran Chinese education in the Shanghai Municipal Council's schools and later led refugee schooling in the city.

Cornell Sidney Franklin樊克令

b. 1892 · American lawyer, chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council

American lawyer on the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1933 and its chairman in 1937-39; later a leader of the American community.

David Sassoon & Co.老沙逊洋行

est. 1832 · Firm

Bombay trading house founded in 1832 by David Sassoon; opened in Shanghai in 1845 and was known as Old Sassoon after the family firm split.

Davies & Brooke新瑞和洋行

architect

British architects named in the Shanghai gazetteer as designer and supervising architect of the Astor House Hotel, rebuilt and completed in 1907.

Dent & Co.宝顺洋行

1824–1867 · Firm

The British hong at No. 14 the Bund, Jardines' great rival in opium, which failed in 1867 and whose comprador Xu Run went on to China Merchants.

Ding Richang丁日昌

1823–1882 · Shanghai daotai, Jiangsu governor, Qing official

Qing official, recommended in 1863 to run the Jiangnan Arsenal project, Shanghai daotai in 1864-1865; agreed a gambling ban in the French Concession.

Ding Wenjiang丁文江

1887–1936 · geologist, Shanghai port commissioner, negotiator for the Mixed Court

Geologist who as head of the Songhu Commercial Port Office signed the 1926 provisional agreement returning the Mixed Court to Chinese control.

Du Yuesheng杜月笙

1887–1951 · Green Gang leader, French Municipal Council member, banker

Pudong-born Green Gang leader and banker; Chinese director of the French Concession Municipal Council from 1930.

E. D. Sassoon & Co.新沙逊洋行

1867–1958 · Firm

Rival Sassoon house founded by Elias David Sassoon (1867 or 1872) that grew from opium and cotton into Shanghai's biggest landlord under Victor Sassoon.

Edward Cunningham金能亨

1823–1889 · merchant, Russell & Co. partner, Municipal Council chairman

American partner in Russell & Co. who founded a Yangtze steamship line in 1862, sat on the first Municipal Council in 1854 and chaired it in 1868-69.

Edward Selby Little李德立

b. 1864 · businessman, Municipal Councillor

British businessman on the Municipal Council 1904-1906 who urged an opium ban and Chinese directors, and joined the 1911 peace talks.

Eleanor Mary Hinder辛德

1893–1963 · social reformer, head of the Municipal Council's Industrial and Social Division

Australian social reformer who studied women and child factory workers and in 1933 became head of the Municipal Council's Industrial and Social Division.

Elias David Sassoon以利亚·大卫·沙逊

1820–1880 · merchant, opium trader

Second son of David Sassoon (1820–1880); opened the family's China business in 1844–45 and founded E. D. Sassoon & Co., 'New Sassoon'.

Émile Kraetzer恺自迩

1839–1887 · French consul-general

French consul-general in Shanghai in 1885–87 who opened a free French-language school in the French Concession and laid water pipes for residents.

Ernest Major美查

merchant, newspaper publisher

British merchant who founded Shen Bao in 1872, the Dianshizhai lithographic press in 1876 and a match factory, and sat on the Municipal Council in 1884.

Fan Wenzhao范文照

architect

Chinese architect who, with Zhao Shen, designed the Nanking Theatre, now the Shanghai Concert Hall.

Feng Junguang冯焌光

1830–1878 · Shanghai daotai, arsenal director

Qing official who ran the Jiangnan Arsenal, served as Shanghai daotai in 1875 and negotiated the purchase of the Woosung railway.

Francis Blackwell Forbes福士

1840–1908 · merchant, Municipal Council member, botanist

American partner in Russell & Co. who sat on both the Shanghai Municipal Council and the French Council, and led the Asiatic Society in 1873–74.

Francis Lister Hawks Pott卜舫济

1864–1947 · missionary educator, president, St John's University

American Episcopal missionary who led St John's College and University in Shanghai 1888-1941 and co-proposed the Council's Chinese public school.

Frank J. Raven蕾文

b. 1875 · Municipal Council engineer, financier and land speculator

American former Municipal Council surveyor who built a bank and property group in Shanghai in the 1910s-20s; it collapsed in 1935.

Funatsu Tatsuichiro船津辰一郎

1873–1947 · Japanese diplomat, Municipal Council director

Japanese diplomat turned cotton-industry executive who sat on the Shanghai Municipal Council in 1926-1929 and 1932-1934 and was deputy chairman from 1933.

Gensler金斯勒

architect

Architecture firm that designed Shanghai Tower in Lujiazui.

George Lanning兰宁

1852–1920 · school head, historian

British educator who ran the Shanghai Public School for the Municipal Council and wrote a two-volume history of Shanghai, finished by Samuel Couling.

Georges Gaston Servan de Bezaure白藻泰

b. 1852 · French consul-general

French consul-general in Shanghai 1896-1901, who dealt with the Siming Gongsuo riot of 1898 and negotiated the 1900 extension of the French Concession.

Gibb, Livingston & Co.仁记洋行

est. 1836 · Firm

Scottish-run hong founded at Canton in 1836; opened in Shanghai in 1844, gave Jinkee Road its name and acted as agent for insurers and shipping lines.

Gong Muju宫慕久

Shanghai daotai

Shanghai daotai from 1843 who negotiated the port's opening and published the first Land Regulations of 1845, the start of the British settlement.

Guan Jiong关炯

1879–1942 · Mixed Court magistrate, tax official

Chinese magistrate of the Shanghai Mixed Court who handled the 1905 Mixed Court riot case, the 1913 Song Jiaoren case and the May Thirtieth detainees.

H. Tarrant塔兰特

architect

British architect in the Shanghai Municipal Council's Public Works Department; designed the 1910 Shanghai Club building and died before it was finished.

He Dekui何德奎

1896–1983 · Municipal Council deputy secretary-general, deputy mayor of Shanghai

One of the few Chinese senior officials of the Shanghai Municipal Council, deputy secretary-general from 1936 and deputy mayor of Shanghai after the war.

Heinrich Becker (Becker firm)倍高洋行

architect

German architect named by English Wikipedia as designer of the Russo-Chinese Bank Building; Chinese sources name the German firm 倍高洋行 (or 培高洋行).

Henry G. Wolcott吴利国

merchant, acting US consul

Russell & Co. partner who in 1845 became the first American to lease land in Shanghai and in 1846 opened the first US consulate.

Henry Lester雷士德

1840–1926 · surveyor, property developer, philanthropist

Southampton-born surveyor (1840–1926) who made a fortune in Shanghai property; his trust built the Lester medical and technical institutes.

Howarth Erskine（中文名待查）

other

Singapore firm that won the contract for the steelwork of the Waibaidu Bridge (1906–07); it was the contractor, not the designer.

Huang Fang黄芳

acting Shanghai daotai, Qing official

Qing official who, as acting Shanghai daotai in 1863, agreed the American Settlement boundary and the tax compact for the French Concession.

Huang Jinrong黄金荣

1868–1953 · French Concession police detective, Green Gang leader

French Concession police detective who rose to chief inspector, and a leading Green Gang figure with Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin.

Jardine, Matheson & Co.怡和洋行

1832–1954 · Firm

The Scottish-founded hong that opened in Shanghai in 1843, built the Bund's No. 27 and ran steamers, wharves and mills until it left in 1954.

John Benjamin Powell鲍威尔

1886–1947 · newspaper editor and publisher, journalist

American journalist who edited and then owned the Shanghai weekly Millard's Review, renamed the China Weekly Review, from 1917 to the Pacific War.

John Calvin Ferguson福开森

1866–1945 · missionary educator, newspaper owner, adviser

American educator, newspaper owner and adviser, sixty years in China; bought the Xinwen Bao in 1899 and had a French Concession road named for him.

Kadoorie family嘉道理家族

est. 1880 · Family

Baghdad-born brothers who reached Hong Kong in the 1880s, built a power-and-hotel group, and left Shanghai the Marble Hall, now the Children's Palace.

Károly Gonda (C. H. Gonda)鸿达

1889–1969 · architect

Hungarian architect in Shanghai from 1920; designed the Capitol and Cathay theatres and the Bank of Communications Building on the Bund.

Kenneth John McEuen麦高云

b. 1879 · Municipal Police commissioner

British commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Police at the time of the May Thirtieth Incident in 1925, removed from office afterwards.

Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)KPF建筑事务所

architect

Architecture firm, with William Pedersen as design architect, that designed the Shanghai World Financial Center.

Lan Weiwen蓝蔚雯

d. 1857 · acting Shanghai daotai

Acting Shanghai daotai whose 1855 arrangement with three consuls let Chinese live in the settlement under Municipal Council taxation.

László Hudec邬达克

1893–1958 · architect, honorary consul

Hungarian architect (1893–1958) who reached Shanghai in 1918 as an escaped prisoner of war and designed the Park Hotel, Grand Theatre and Wukang Mansion.

Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie劳伦斯·嘉道理

1899–1993 · industrialist, hotelier, philanthropist

Elly Kadoorie's elder son (1899-1993), who led China Light and Power from 1945 and became Hong Kong's first native-born life peer in 1981.

Lester, Johnson & Morriss德和洋行

architect

Shanghai architecture firm (德和洋行) of Henry Lester and Gordon Morriss; designed the North China Daily News Building at Bund 17.

Li Guangjiu李光久

1845–1900 · Shanghai daotai, Hunan Army commander

Hunan Army officer who, as Shanghai daotai in 1899, agreed with the consuls the boundaries of the enlarged International Settlement.

Lin Gui麟桂

Shanghai daotai

Shanghai daotai in 1848-49 who extended the British settlement, granted Hongkou to American residents and agreed the French concession.

Liu Ruifen刘瑞芬

1827–1892 · Shanghai daotai, Qing diplomat

Qing official who arrived in Shanghai with Li Hongzhang's army in 1862, became Shanghai daotai in 1877 and later served as minister in Europe.

Louis Charles Nicolas Maximilien de Montigny敏体尼

1805–1868 · French consul

First French consul in Shanghai (1847), who negotiated the French concession with daotai Lin Gui in April 1849.

Louis Ratard巨籁达

French consul-general

French consul-general at Shanghai in 1901-1909 under whom talks on enlarging the French Concession began and a road was named for him.

Lü Haihuan吕海寰

1842–1927 · Shanghai daotai, diplomat, commercial treaty commissioner

Qing official, Shanghai daotai from 1896 and later treaty commissioner, who asked to revise the Mixed Court rules to regain judicial rights.

Luke Him Sau (Lu Qianshou)陆谦受

architect

Architect of the Bank of China's own building department; designed the Bank of China Building on the Bund (1934-37).

Luo Jialing (Liza Hardoon)罗迦陵

1864–1941 · philanthropist, Buddhist patron

Shanghai-born wife of Silas Hardoon, Buddhist patron of Aili Garden, and sole heir of his estate until her death in 1941.

M. Gaudeaux葛笃

b. 1833 · French consul-general

French consul-general in Shanghai 1872–79, in office during the first Siming Gongsuo incident of 1874.

M. Lemaire李梅

1839–1907 · French consul-general, French minister to China

French interpreter who served in Shanghai in the 1850s, became consul-general there in 1884 and later minister to China.

Mario Paci梅百器

1878–1946 · conductor, pianist

Italian pianist and conductor who led the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra from 1919 until it was disbanded in 1942.

Marti马第

architect

Architect whose design for the concrete Gutzlaff Signal Tower on the Bund was chosen by the French Municipal Council in 1906 and built in 1907–08.

Matthew Tyson Yates晏玛太

1819–1888 · Southern Baptist missionary, interpreter, municipal councillor

American Southern Baptist missionary in Shanghai from 1847, later an interpreter, real-estate dealer and member of the municipal councils in the 1860s.

Moorhead & Halse马海洋行

architect

British practice formed in Shanghai in 1907 by civil engineer Robert Moorhead and architect Sidney Joseph Halse; it designed the Asia Building on the Bund.

Morrison & Gratton玛礼逊洋行

architect, engineer

British architects and engineers in Shanghai, founded 1885; designed the Imperial Bank of China Building and the Palace Hotel on the Bund.

Nicholas A. Ivanov伊万诺夫

d. 1941 · Russian vice-consul, Mixed Court assessor, chairman of the Russian emigrants' committee

Russian vice-consul and Mixed Court assessor who led Shanghai's Russian emigrants' committee from 1940; he was assassinated in 1941.

Norwood Francis Allman阿乐满

b. 1890 · American lawyer, Municipal Council member, Mixed Court assessor

American lawyer who sat as assessor in the Mixed Court, co-founded a law firm in 1922, and served on the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1940 to 1942.

Okamoto Issaku冈本一策

b. 1889 · Japanese diplomat, Municipal Council vice-chairman

Japanese diplomat who was vice-chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from April 1941 and led the Municipal Research Society until December.

Okazaki Katsuo冈崎胜男

1897–1965 · Japanese diplomat, consul-general at Shanghai

Japanese diplomat, vice-consul and consul at Shanghai from 1928 and consul-general in 1937, who later led the Shanghai Municipal Research Society.

Palmer & Turner公和洋行

architect

Hong Kong architectural practice, in Shanghai from 1912 as 公和洋行; designed more Bund buildings than any other firm, including HSBC and Sassoon House.

Pierre René Dubail吕班

1845–1931 · French consul-general, French minister to China

French consul-general in Shanghai in 1893–96, later minister in Beijing; a road in the French Concession bore his name.

R. P. L. Froc劳积勋

1859–1932 · Jesuit missionary, director, Zikawei Observatory

French Jesuit who directed the Zikawei (Xujiahui) Observatory for thirty years from 1896; a street in the French Concession was named after him.

Richard Feetham费唐

1874–1965 · South African judge, author of the Feetham Report

South African judge brought to Shanghai in 1931 to study the International Settlement; his 1932 report defended the system and suggested reforms.

Robert H. Boyce伯依斯

architect

British surveyor named as architect on the 1872 foundation stone of the Shanghai consulate rebuilding; the gazetteer credits 伯依斯.

Robert Thomas Bryan Jr博良

b. 1892 · lawyer, head of the Municipal Council's Legal Department

Shanghai-born American lawyer who headed the Shanghai Municipal Council's Legal Department from 1930 and later advised the US consulate.

Rui Cheng瑞澂

1863–1912 · Shanghai daotai, Viceroy of Huguang

Manchu banner official who was Shanghai daotai in 1906-1907, created the north-city police bureau, and fled Wuchang at the 1911 uprising.

Russell & Co.旗昌洋行

1824–1891 · Firm

The largest American house in China, whose Shanghai Steam Navigation Co. ran the Yangtze until its fleet was sold to China Merchants in 1877.

Shao Youlian邵友濂

d. 1901 · Shanghai daotai, Taiwan governor

Qing official, Shanghai daotai from 1882, who arranged the Russian flag over the French Concession during the Sino-French War of 1884–85.

Shen Bingcheng沈秉成

1823–1895 · Shanghai daotai, Qing official

Qing official, Shanghai daotai from 1872, who promoted mulberry planting, backed a Western-language school, led troops into the French Concession in 1874.

Silas Aaron Hardoon哈同

1851–1931 · property developer, merchant, philanthropist

Baghdad-born Jewish merchant, Nanjing Road landlord and owner of Aili Garden; his estate was disputed for sixteen years after his death in 1931.

Sir Edward Charles Pearce庇亚士

1862–1928 · Municipal Council chairman, businessman

British businessman, nine times elected to the Shanghai Municipal Council in 1911-1919 and twice its chairman; he built up the Council's school system.

Sir Elly Kadoorie艾利·嘉道理

1867–1944 · broker, investor, philanthropist

Baghdad-born broker (1867-1944), former Sassoon clerk, who built the Kadoorie fortune and Marble Hall in Shanghai, where he died under occupation.

Sir George Balfour巴富尔

1809–1894 · first British consul in Shanghai, army officer

First British consul in Shanghai (1843): planned the British settlement, called the first residents' meeting and agreed the 1845 Land Regulations.

Sir Harry Smith Parkes巴夏礼

1828–1885 · British consul, British minister to Japan and China

British diplomat, consul in Shanghai from 1862, who proposed the 1864 court that became the Mixed Court; later minister to Japan and China.

Sir Horace Kadoorie贺理士·嘉道理

1902–1995 · industrialist, philanthropist

Elly Kadoorie's younger son (1902-1995), who founded the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association in 1937 and was in Shanghai until 1948.

Sir Rutherford Alcock阿礼国

1809–1897 · British consul, British minister to China

British consul in Shanghai 1846-1855 who pressed the Qingpu case, extended the settlement in 1848 and helped found the Municipal Council in 1854.

Sir Victor Sassoon维克多·沙逊

1881–1961 · property developer, financier, baronet, racehorse owner, hotelier

British-Indian baronet (1881–1961) who moved the E. D. Sassoon group to Shanghai and built Sassoon House, Cathay Mansions and the Embankment Building.

Sir Walter Henry Medhurst麦华陀

1823–1885 · British consul, interpreter

British consular interpreter who came to Shanghai in 1843, helped negotiate the Land Regulations, and served as consul in Shanghai on and off until 1876.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)SOM建筑设计事务所

architect, engineer

Chicago firm that designed the Jin Mao Tower in Lujiazui; Adrian Smith was the designer.

Stewardson & Spence思九生洋行

architect

British architects of the General Post Office Building on Suzhou Creek (1922-24); Chinese sources name 思九生 and 史滨生, and the firm 思九生洋行.

Stirling Fessenden费信惇

1875–1943 · American lawyer, Municipal Council chairman, Council secretary-general

American lawyer who chaired the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1923 to 1929 and then served as its secretary-general until 1939.

The Sassoon family沙逊家族

est. 1832 · Family

Baghdad-born Jewish merchant family that traded opium and cotton from Bombay, opened in Shanghai in 1845 and later built towers on the Bund.

Thomas Francis Wade威妥玛

1818–1895 · British diplomat, first foreign inspector of Shanghai customs, sinologist

British diplomat, first foreign inspector of the Shanghai customs in 1854, later minister to China and first Cambridge professor of Chinese.

Thomas Hanbury汉璧礼

1832–1907 · merchant, Municipal Council member, school founder

British merchant and Municipal Councillor whose Eurasian school became the Hanbury School, the first school run by the Shanghai Municipal Council.

Thomas Taylor Meadows密迪乐

1815–1868 · British consul, interpreter, author

British interpreter who came to Shanghai in 1852 and later served as consul; his book on the Taiping rising is an early English account of the movement.

Tong King-sing唐廷枢

1832–1892 · comprador, steamship manager, mining manager

Interpreter who was Jardine Matheson's Shanghai comprador from 1863 and in 1873 took charge of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company.

Tu Zongying涂宗瀛

1812–1894 · Shanghai daotai

Shanghai daotai from 1869, in whose term the consuls put the 1869 Land Regulations into effect before Chinese approval.

Victor Fedorovich Grosse格罗思

1869–1931 · Russian consul-general, leader of the Russian community

Russian consul-general at Shanghai who stayed on after his government lost recognition and became the practical leader of Shanghai's Russian refugees.

Walter Henry Medhurst麦都思

1796–1857 · missionary, printer, Municipal Council member

London Missionary Society missionary who moved a printing press to Shanghai in 1843 and sat on the first Municipal Council in 1854.

Walter Scott司高脱

architect

British architect of 玛礼逊洋行 who designed the Palace Hotel on the Bund (begun 1906, opened 1908).

William Crossman克罗斯曼

other

Treasury surveyor sent to Shanghai in 1866 to oversee British consular buildings; the gazetteer credits 克罗斯曼 as co-designer of the 1873 consulate.

William Johnston Keswick恺自威

b. 1903 · taipan of Jardine Matheson, Municipal Council chairman

Shanghai-born Jardine Matheson manager, Municipal Council chairman in 1940-41, shot and wounded at the ratepayers' meeting of January 1941.

William Jones Boone文惠廉

1811–1864 · Episcopal bishop, missionary

American Episcopal bishop who arrived in Shanghai in 1845 and, per the gazetteer, is regarded as the founder of the American settlement in Hongkou.

William Keswick耆紫薇

1835–1912 · merchant, Municipal Council chairman, taipan of Jardine Matheson

Jardine Matheson partner and Shanghai Municipal Council chairman in 1865–66, who urged the Council to extend settlement roads west beyond the racecourse.

Wu Jianzhang吴健彰

d. 1869 · Shanghai daotai, Cantonese merchant

Former Canton hong merchant and Russell & Co. shareholder who, as Shanghai daotai in 1854, agreed the foreign-run Customs inspectorate.

Wu Xu吴煦

1809–1873 · Shanghai daotai

Shanghai daotai from about 1858 who raised the Foreign Arms Corps against the Taiping and agreed the first French concession extension in 1861.

Xi Zhengfu席正甫

1838–1904 · comprador, banker

Suzhou-born money-shop apprentice who became the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank's Shanghai comprador in 1874 and handled most of its Qing government loans.

Xian Ling咸龄

Shanghai daotai

Shanghai daotai from 1847 who approved the first foreign lease deed (Dent & Co.) and was dismissed in 1848 after the Qingpu incident.

Xu Run徐润

1838–1911 · comprador, property investor, steamship manager

Comprador of Dent and Co. who became deputy head of China Merchants in 1873 and a large Shanghai property investor.

Xu Yuan许沅

b. 1873 · Jiangsu diplomatic commissioner, Huangpu Conservancy Board director

Chinese diplomatic official who served as Jiangsu commissioner for foreign affairs and director of the Huangpu Conservancy Board in the 1920s.

Xue Huan薛焕

1815–1880 · Shanghai daotai, Jiangsu governor, Qing official

Qing official, Shanghai daotai from 1857, who handled foreign affairs in the Taiping years and ordered a foreign-rifle corps raised in 1860.

Yang Cheng杨晟

b. 1867 · diplomat, Shanghai circuit intendant, businessman

Cantonese diplomat and official who studied in Germany, served as minister to Austria and Germany, and held the Shanghai-Haiyang circuit post in 1914-1915.

Ying Baoshi应宝时

1821–1890 · Shanghai daotai, Qing official

Qing official who, as Shanghai daotai, opened the 1864 magistrate's office that became the Mixed Court and refused a Shanghai-Wusong railway.

Yu Lianyuan余联沅

d. 1901 · Shanghai daotai, provincial governor

Shanghai daotai in 1899-1900 who announced the enlarged French Concession on 27 January 1900 and signed the Mutual Protection of the Southeast.

Yu Qiaqing虞洽卿

1867–1945 · compradore, businessman, Municipal Councillor

Ningbo-born compradore and shipowner, chair of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and a Chinese member of the Municipal Council 1929-1940.

Yuan Ludeng袁履登

1879–1954 · businessman, Municipal Council Chinese director

Ningbo-born businessman who in 1928 became one of the first Chinese directors of the Shanghai Municipal Council and sat again in 1939-1943.

Yuan Shuxun袁树勋

1847–1915 · Shanghai daotai, governor, Viceroy of Liangguang

Qing official, Shanghai daotai from 1901, who signed the 1902 Mixed Court supplementary rules and handled the Subao case and the 1905 Mixed Court riot.

Zhang Xiaolin张啸林

1877–1940 · Green Gang leader, French Concession Chinese Councillor

Green Gang leader and French Concession Chinese Councillor, one of Shanghai's three 'big shots' with Huang Jinrong and Du Yuesheng; shot dead in 1940.

Zhao Shen赵深

architect

Chinese architect who, with Fan Wenzhao, designed the Nanking Theatre, now the Shanghai Concert Hall.

Zheng Guanying郑观应

1842–1922 · comprador, merchant reformer, author

Guangdong-born comprador of Butterfield & Swire and author of Shengshi weiyan (1893), who argued for parliamentary government and commercial reform.

Zhou Huinan周惠南

architect

Shanghai architect named by Chinese Wikipedia as builder of the first-generation Great World.