China: Satirical cartoon in Punch portrays Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm () as a new Chinese Emperor after the forced cession of Qingdao by China to Germany. Illustration, January 15, 1898. The Kiautschou Bay concession was a German colonial concession in Imperial China which existed from 1898 to 1914. It had an area of 552 sq km, and was located around Jiaozhou Bay on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula, which lay in the imperial province of Shandong in northern China. Jiaozhou was romanised as Kiaochow, Kiauchau or Kiao-Chau in English and Kiautschou or Kiaochau in German.


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