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Treaty of Nanking

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Signed aboard HMS Cornwallis, the treaty ended the First Opium War on British terms: Hong Kong island was ceded, five ports including Canton and Shanghai were opened to British trade and residence, the Cohong monopoly was abolished, tariffs were fixed by agreement, and an indemnity of twenty-one million silver dollars was imposed, of which six million covered the opium Lin Zexu had destroyed. Opium itself was not mentioned in the text. The Canton System ended, and the tea trade began shifting north to Shanghai.

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  1. Story
  2. Signed aboard HMS Cornwallis, the treaty ended the First Opium War on British terms: Hong Kong island was ceded, five ports including Canton and Shanghai were opened to British trade and residence, the Cohong monopoly was abolished, tariffs were fixed by agreement, and an indemnity of twenty-one million silver dollars was imposed, of which six million covered the opium Lin Zexu had destroyed. Opium itself was not mentioned in the text. The Canton System ended, and the tea trade began shifting north to Shanghai.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Tea
  5. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  6. Cohong (Gonghang)
  7. Silver
  8. Shanghai
  9. Treaty of Nanking
  10. Connections
  11. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  12. Shanghai
  13. Cohong (Gonghang)
  14. Silver
  15. Tea
  16. Tea
  17. Cohong (Gonghang)
  18. Silver
  19. Opium
  20. Shanghai
  21. Qing trade confined to Canton
  22. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  23. Lin Zexu destroys confiscated opium at Humen
  24. The Opium Wars
  25. Treaty of Nanking
  26. Robert Fortune
  27. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  28. Treaty of Nanking
  29. Robert Fortune removes tea plants and tea makers from China
  30. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  31. Qing trade confined to Canton
  32. Treaty of Nanking
  33. Tea
  34. The Columbian Exchange
  35. Manila
  36. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  37. Opium
  38. Qing trade confined to Canton
  39. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  40. The Opium Wars
  41. Treaty of Nanking
  42. Potosí
  43. Silver ore is registered at the Cerro Rico of Potosí
  44. Manila is founded as the eastern terminus
  45. Mercury amalgamation and the mita transform Potosí
  46. Camellia sinensis
  47. Silver
  48. London
  49. Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao)
  50. Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
  51. English (later British) East India Company
  52. Tea culture
  53. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  54. Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
  55. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  56. Qing trade confined to Canton
  57. Boston Tea Party
  58. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  59. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  60. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  61. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  62. The Opium Wars
  63. Treaty of Nanking
  64. Evidence
  65. The treaty opened five ports, ceded Hong Kong, abolished the Cohong monopoly, fixed tariffs and imposed a silver indemnity — and made no mention of opium.
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