ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about the relationship between concession' and city' through a study of the French concession at Wuhan. Whatever the role of the Japanese occupation might have been whether it contributed to maintaining of the French Concession or contributed to the eventual fall of the concessions in China the chapter explores the practical details of how relations between the concession and the rest of the city changed during this period. It shows how the French position was held and how life was organized in this hostile environment; and how this small French territory coped in a tri-city transformed by the Japanese military. Japanese takeover of Wuhan on 25 October 1938 left the French Concession in a very particular position. Among the French Concessions, the one in Hankou was the only one to be so isolated: Tianjin still had the British, Italian, and Japanese concessions, and the Shanghai French Concession neighboured the large International Settlement.
