The Circuit intendant of Shanghai was first installed in 1730, and there has been a new intendant each year since.
1730 1906 
The circuit intendant or daotai of Shanghai, also formerly romanized as taotai or tao tai, was an imperial Chinese official who oversaw the circuit of Shanghai, then part of Jiangsu Province, in the Qing Empire. The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing ([ti), was the last imperial dynasty of China. It was established in 1636, and ruled China proper from 1644 to 1912. 
