Foreign Real Estate's Study Of Late Qing In Canton

As canton became the only trading port, the foreignbusinessmen keep pouring in. In order to make enforcement easier, the Qing special restricted foreign businessmen living in commercial museum .which in Canton outside, and the foreign businessmen have activities in the area only, so, the foreign businessmen's liberty were strictly limited. After the Opium War, foreign government signed a series of unequal treaties with the later Qing Dynasty, which permitted foreign businessmen have the right to tenants in housing at trading port. The people of canton to fulfil safeguard sovereignty and territorial integrity, fightde with foreign government. Although foreign government leased sand area , after the Second Opium War, compared to other trading port, canton's settlement area was the least. Canton people's strongly patriotic feelings took an important role in the struggle.