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The Treaty of Nanking was the peace treaty which ended the First Opium War (1839–1842) between Great Britain and the Qing dynasty of China on 29 August 1842. It was the first of what the Chinese later termed the " unequal treaties ".
The treaty as a legal document in international law can describe either a specific international instrument or a general category of such instruments of agreement. [1] This list includes the most important examples of both formal treaties and other agreements between China and other nations in this period.
The British settlements were established following the victory of the British in the First Opium War (1839–1842). Under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking, the five treaty ports including Shanghai were opened to foreign merchants, overturning the monopoly then held by the southern port of Canton under the Canton System.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1842 29 August The Treaty of Nanking is signed between Britain and China, to come into effect on 26 June 1843.
Treaty Open Date Closed Date Chinese Population Sandu'ao , in Fujian province: imperial decree of 31 March 1898: opened 1 May 1899: 8000 Fuzhou, also in Fujian: Nan-king Treaty, 1842: opened July, 1861: 624,000 Amoy, also in Fujian: Nan-king Treaty 1842; opened April, 1862: 114,000 Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong province: Nanking Treaty, 1842 ...
Map showing Chinese treaty ports in the 19th and early 20th centuries The British established their first treaty ports in China after the First Opium War by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. As well as ceding the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain in perpetuity, the treaty also established five treaty ports at Shanghai , Guangzhou (Canton ...
The 1842 Treaty of Nanjing between China and Great Britain stated that "British Subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint at the cities and towns of Canton, Amoy, Foochow-fu, Ningpo and Shanghai", [1] but nothing was ...
The governments of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China (PRC) concluded the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong in 1984, under which the sovereignty of the leased territories, together with Hong Kong Island, ceded under the Treaty of Nanking (1842), and Kowloon Peninsula (south of Boundary Street), was ...