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Could there be a population of foreign-born residents of Shanghai that remained after the end of the Concessions? Would they wield any significant economic or political influence? Would it have been possible at all for the Nationalist Government to negotiate a peaceful return of the concessions, with the condition that the Westerners who had come to stay would be allowed to settle there and maintain their customs?