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Shanghai is a port city at the mouth of the Yangtze, opened to foreign residence and trade as one of the five treaty ports of the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, and rapidly displacing Canton as…
31.2, 121.5 · approximate · treaty port from 1843
On the world
- A place in: How Tea Moved · 6 places
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Connections
- is operated from of Robert Fortune — Fortune used the treaty port opened by the 1842 settlement as the coastal base for his journeys into the tea districts and for shipping collected material.
- displaced Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou — After the 1842 treaty opened five ports, Shanghai grew to take the leading share of the tea export trade formerly concentrated at Canton.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates