In order to deal with government's strict control, they always established newspapers in the foreign leased territory, and made their papers owned by foreigners.
As result of the German-Chinese lease contract the Chinese government gave up all sovereign rights within the leased territory to which the city of Jiaozhou did not belong!
They forcibly occupied leased territory, divided into spheres of influence, an attempt to carve up China, China as a colony changed.
The first chapter tells the process of formation of Gulangyu as a leased territory.