Historic Shanghai Tour: ‘Scots in Auld Shanghai’

Shanghai’s very existence was due to a Scot: William Jardine of Dumfrieshire was the architect of the first Opium War in 1842, the conflict that first opened the city to trade. Many more would follow: traders and merchants, hoteliers and gardeners, bankers and missionaries, liquor importers, plant smugglers, even Scottish cows. By 1865, a St. Andrew’s Society was formed.