International Settlement

The Shanghai International Settlement was originally a British settlement built in Shanghai in the early 1840's where many British people lived and worked. Later throughout the years other countires such as America and France from other European countries arrived making their own quarters in the Settlement bringing with them advanced technology for the Chinese people, such as cars and cinema's. It was one of the original five treaty ports which were established under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking at the end of the first opium war in the year 1842.

In 1935 Wu Han a friend of Indiana Jones bought a small house for himself in the International Settlement. Wu Han later let a orphaned boy called Short Round whom Jones had found and Short Round's street urchins live at his small house in the Settlement.