ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the activities of the Mixed Court staff after the suppression of the riot in 1905. It summarizes few civil cases heard at the Mixed Court in this period, in order to reveal how the "extra-territorial" system was regarded and used by certain Chinese. The sources of the articles are the series of diplomatic negotiations between the Shanghai Municipal Council, foreign consul generals in Shanghai and the Chinese local bureaucrats. The leaders of the Chinese mercantile community in Shanghai organized a large-scale riot against the Mixed Court and the Municipal Police in December 1905 to destroy the arrangement. The outbreak of the Xinhai revolution was a godsend for the foreign assessors of the Mixed Court. The government of the Shanghai Daotai, faced with the unexpected emergency situation, bestowed on the Consular Body the right to control the Mixed Court for the time being.
