Show U S citizens stay in china despite two years of war 0 ja to 1 lull 9 t P SHANGHAIS BUND here along the historic shanghai bund many of the americans living in china perform their daily tasks most of the buildings in this region are foreign owned the bund borders on the river residents abroad live in concessions of foreign nations 0 prepared by national geographic society washington ashington D C service after two years of war united states citizens are still maintaining residence in china this number includes women and children but does not count the enlisted men in the united states armed forces navy and marines now on duty in china in addition to the residents dents china has also a wartime quota 0 of f venturesome american travelers seeing the country pushing through quick business projects reporting to american newspapers magazines or newsreels news reels or pursuing those unidentified missions i which take many to the unquestioning orient although there is a united states court for china there is no american concession to shelter the american residents and their transient compatriots united states concessions were mapped out for shanghai for for amoy and other ports during the p past a st century but shanghais Shan ghais american area was incorporated into the international settlement Tient sins added to the british aloys merged into the general foreign reservation A legation quarter was set up at pei ping and the projected american concessions in other cities were dropped center in shan shanghai hai somewhat less tha than n half of the americans in china live in shanghai where the international settlement and the french concession together constitute a foreign metropolis within chinas cainas largest metropolis the foreign areas contain as many people mostly chinese as the entire city of neiping Pei ping neiping has more than americans more than the only other cities in which more than 75 american residents have remained since since japan has been carrying on military operations in china are Tsing tao canton and bankow previously Arne american rican colonies of from to were picturesque tu tur esque parts of a number of less prominent cities such as chang sha the remaining americans about are well distributed throughout chinas cainas square miles either in closely knit little clusters at ports or in hardy twosomes two somes or singletons at the religious missions scattered inland frequently separated by days of primitive travel from the company of their compatriots |