In this article, we rely on a census of French residents in 1942 to conduct a quantitative micro-history of the French community in the wake of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai. On the basis of this snapshot, we examine this group from the perspective of long-term demography combined with a spatial approach drawing on the geospatial resources built over a decade in Shanghai. We argue that the system of power in the French Concession shaped the structural traits of the French population as a self-contained community. It created a politically, culturally and linguistically defined space where French nationals were presented with opportunities and even privileges. It sheds light on the social characteristics of foreign communities in a transcolonial city and on the spatial patterns they created in a non-western urban setting. Methodologically, we harness Geographical Information System tools to bridge demography and spatial history.

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东方巴黎：上海法国人的空间微观历史（1942）

在本文中，我们依靠 1942 年对法国居民的人口普查，对日本入侵上海之后的法国社区进行了定量的微观历史。在此快照的基础上，我们从长期人口学的角度结合利用上海十多年来建立的地理空间资源的空间方法来研究这个群体。我们认为，法租界的权力体系塑造了法国人口作为一个自给自足的社区的结构特征。它创造了一个政治、文化和语言定义的空间，为法国国民提供了机会甚至特权。它揭示了跨殖民城市中外国社区的社会特征以及他们在非西方城市环境中创造的空间格局。在方法论上，