98 NAMES AND NICKNAMES OF THE 



SHANGHAI SETTLEMENTS 



be made, and "E Woo,' or "E Wo" (^ *n), is the cry. 

 The " Pleasant Harmony" of the firm of Jardine, Matheson 

 & Co. has lasted longer than that of any other firm in the 

 Far East. For close upon a hundred years since the early 

 trading ventures of Dr. William Jardine, the firm has held 

 a leading place in Far Eastern commerce and proceedings. 

 Its jetty is the only one left which still retains the Hong 

 name. The E-wo building, now in course of demolition, was 

 the second to occupy the same site, a site which has the 

 unique honour of standing in British Consular records as 

 No. 1. 



We have found no need in this dissertation to discuss the 

 principles of name-giving — the science of onomatology. Yet 

 incidentally we have discovered that Shanghai is no exception 

 to its general laws. We have seen one name from India. — 

 the Bund. We have seen another imported under peculiar- 

 circumstances from Canton, the Kwangtung Chieh. Another 

 might be named as coming from New York — Broadway. 

 How various native names have been retained we have also 

 shown. How many of our roads came to be called after 

 Chinese provinces or cities has been made clear. Personal 

 names, also, have been drawn upon. Boone, Seward, 

 Purdon, and Wetmore are American. Balfour, Brenan, 

 Burkill, Carter, and Dent are British, while in the French 

 Concession there are many French. 



Family names such as the Li Chia, or the Si Chia, in 

 the Li Chia Chang and Siccawei, may be numbered by the 

 thousand in China. It is just the same in Europe. It is 

 estimated that there are more than 2,000 places in Great 

 Britain alone in which the "ing" affix shows, as in Kensing- 

 ton. They are common, too, in France and Germany. The- 

 "ton" in Kensington, and the "tun" in Changchiatun in 

 Manchuria are as common as blackberries both in England' 

 and China; and no wonder, for the origin, use, and pronun- 

 ciation of the words, together with their meanings are 

 identical. But this is far too broad a subject to be discussed 

 at the tail of so homely a topic as the Settlement Names 

 and Nicknames of Shanghai. It must, therefore be left for 

 the present. 



