Carte économique commerciale en Chine 1895-1897. Chambre de Commerce de Lyon. Mission d'exploration commerciale en Chine.

Paris.: Erhard Frères. 1898.. Lithographed folding colour map 44.5 x 49.5 cms; 54.6 x 76.3 cms (sheet), towns and cities, items of production and trade routes highlighted in red, original folds, in very good, clean condition. Detailed map prepared for the Lyon Chamber of Commerce Mission to China under the direction of a young Henri Brenier (1867-1962), with the purpose of advancing French colonial expansion, and shoring up the interests of the dominant Lyon silk trade.

The map shows the principal centres of population, production, waterways, roads, telegraph lines and railroads, togther with the centres of production and distribution for coal, iron, tin, gold and silver, opium, tea, rice, sugar, peanuts, cinnamon, wool, medicinal plants and leather. The trade mission was organized following the Treaty of Shimonoseki and the end of the Sino-Japanese War: the Chamber of Commerce of Lyon understood that end of this war would signal a profound economic development and change. .