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The Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan, officially the Template:Lang and historically known in English as Kwangchowan or Kwangchow Wan, was a coastal territory in the Guangdong province of China, leased to France and administered by French Indochina.Template:Sfn The capital of the territory was Fort Bayard, now Zhanjiang.Template:Refn

The Empire of Japan occupied the territory in February 1943; following the surrender of Japan in 1945, France formally relinquished the territory to the Republic of China. The territory did not experience the rapid growth in population that other parts of coastal China experienced, rising from 189,000 in the early 20th centuryTemplate:Sfn to just 209,000 in 1935.Template:Sfn

Geography

The leased territory was situated on the east side of the Leizhou (Luichow) Peninsula (Template:Langx), near Guangzhou, around a bay then called Kwangchowan, now called the Port of Zhanjiang. The bay forms the estuary of the Ma-The River (Template:Langx, Template:Lang-zh), now known as the Zhanjiang Waterway (Template:Lang-zh)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which is navigable as far as Template:Convert inland even by large warships.

The territory leased to France included the islands lying in the bay, which enclosed an area 29 km long by 10 km wide and a minimum water depth of Template:Convert. The islands were then renowned for their admirable natural defenses, the main island being Île de Tan-Hai. On the smaller Île Nau-Chau farther to the southeast, a lighthouse was constructed. Another island of significant size is Template:Ill located to the northeast.

The limits of the territory inland were fixed in November 1899; on the left bank of the Ma-the, France gained from Gaozhou prefecture (Kow Chow Fu) a strip of territory Template:Convert by Template:Convert, and on the right bank a strip Template:Convert by Template:Convert from Leizhou prefecture (Luichowfu).Template:Sfn Its total land area consisted Template:Convert.Template:Sfn

History

French occupation and early development

Fort Bayard circa 1910

Kwangchowan was leased to the French for 99 years according to the Treaty of May 29, 1898, ratified by China on January 5, 1900, during the "scramble for concessions". The colony was described as "commercially unimportant but strategically located"; most of France's energies went into their administration of the mainland of French Indochina, and their main concern in China was the protection of Roman Catholic missionaries, rather than the promotion of trade.Template:Sfn Kwangchow Wan, while not a constituent part of Indochina, was effectively placed under the authority of the French Resident Superior in Tonkin (itself under the Governor-General of French Indochina, also in Hanoi); the French Resident was represented locally by Administrators.Template:Sfn In addition to the territory acquired, France was given the right to connect the bay by rail with the city and harbor situated on the west side of the peninsula; however when they attempted to take possession of the land to build the railway, forces of the provincial government offered armed resistance. As a result, France demanded and obtained exclusive mining rights in the three adjoining prefectures.Template:Sfn The return of the leased territory to China was promised after the First World War by the French at the Washington Naval Conference of 1921–1922,Template:Sfn but that promise was not fulfilled until 1945, by which time the territory had already ceased to be under French rule.

By 1931, the population of Kwangchowan had reached 206,000, giving the colony a population density of 245 persons per km2 (630 per square mile); virtually all Chinese, and only 266 French citizens and four other Europeans were recorded as living there.Template:Sfn Industries included shipping and coal mining.Template:Sfn The port was also popular with smugglers; prior to the 1928 cancellation of the American ban on the export of commercial airplanes, Kwangchow Wan was also used as a stop for Cantonese smugglers transporting military aircraft purchased in Manila to China,Template:Sfn and American records mention at least one drug smuggler who picked up opium and paper sons (Chinese American emigrants circumventing the Chinese Exclusion Act) to smuggle into the United States.Template:Sfn

World War II

Landing of Japanese troops in Kwangchowan in February 1943

As an adjunct of French Indochina, Kwangchow Wan generally endured the same fate as the rest of the Indochina colony during World War II. Even before the signing of the August 30, 1940 accord with Japan in which France recognized the “privileged status of Japanese interests in the Far East” and which constituted the first step of the Japanese military occupation of Indochina, a small detachment of Japanese marines had landed at Fort Bayard without opposition in early July and set up a control and observation post in the harbor.Template:Sfn However, as in the rest of French Indochina, the civilian administration of the territory was to remain in the hands of officials of Vichy France following the Fall of France; in November 1941, Governor-General Jean Decoux, newly appointed by Marshal Philippe Pétain, made an official visit to Kwangchow Wan.Template:Sfn

In mid-February 1943, the Japanese, after having informed the Vichy government that they needed to strengthen the defenses of Kwangchow Wan, unilaterally landed more troops and occupied the airport and all other strategic locations in the Territory. From then on, Kwangchow Wan was de facto under full military Japanese occupation and the French civilian administration was gradually reduced to a mere façade. The Administrator resigned in disgust and Adrien Roques, a local pro-Vichy militant, was appointed to replace him.Template:Sfn In May of the same year, Roques signed a convention with the local Japanese military authorities in which the French authorities promised to cooperate fully with the Japanese. On March 10, 1945, the Japanese, following up on their sudden attack on French garrisons throughout Indochina the night before, disarmed and imprisoned the small French colonial garrison in Fort Bayard.Template:Sfn Just prior to the Japanese surrender, Chinese forces were prepared to launch a large-scale assault on Kwangchow Wan; however, due to the end of the war, the assault never materialized.Template:Sfn While the Japanese were still occupying Kwangchow Wan following the surrender, a French diplomat from the Provisional Government of the French Republic and Kuo Chang Wu, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, signed the Convention between the Provisional Government of the French Republic and the National Government of China for the retrocession of the Leased Territory of Kouang-Tchéou-Wan. Almost immediately after the last Japanese occupation troops had left the territory in late September, representatives of the French and the Chinese governments went to Fort Bayard to proceed to the transfer of authority; the French flag was lowered for the last time on November 20, 1945.Template:Sfn

During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Kwangchowan was often used as a stopover on an escape route for civilians fleeing Hainan and Hong Kong for Thailand, North America and Free China; Patrick Yu, a prominent trial lawyer, recalled in his memoirs how a Japanese military officer helped him escape in this way.Template:Sfn However, the escape route was closed when the Japanese occupied the area in February 1943.Template:Sfn

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Republican-demarcated borders of Kwangchowan in February 1935.

The territory was formally given to the Republic of China on August 18, 1945, after a meetingTemplate:Clarify between the French and Chinese.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

French culture

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A French language school (École Franco-Chinoise de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan) and French bank (Bank of Indochina), among other institutions were set up;<ref>Le Papier Colonial</ref> some such as the Church of St. Victor are extant.Template:Sfn

  • Kwangchow Wan pavilion at the Marseille Colonial Exhibition
    Kwangchow Wan pavilion at the Marseille Colonial Exhibition
  • Post and Telegraph building in Poteou, Kwangchow Wan
    Post and Telegraph building in Poteou, Kwangchow Wan
  • Colonial militia with French officers
    Colonial militia with French officers
  • Pupils and teachers of the École Franco-chinoise de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan
    Pupils and teachers of the École Franco-chinoise de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan

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