Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Consequences of the First opium War
- The Treaty of Nanking
29th August 1842
- China to cede Hong
Kong to British on 99
year lease
- Opening of 5 Treaty ports to British trade
- Shanghai
- Canton
(Guangzhou)
- Ningpo
- Fuchow (Fuzhou)
- Amoy (Xiamen)
- Indemnity $21 million
- Treaty of the
Bogue
- Signed with the British in 1843
- Gave them most
favoured nation
status
- July 1844 Treaty of Wanghia
- Gave the US most favoured nation status
- Treaty of Whampoa
- Gave France most Favoured nation status
- Most favoured
nation status
- Guaranteed trade equality
- Provided a basis to
further loss of economic
autonomy
- Leads to extraterritoriality
- Exception from local
laws, and the free
movement of
missionaries
- Subsequent Foreign Domination on China
- 1st Sino Japanese War- 1894-95
- Humiliation as Japanese seen as inferior
- Scramble for concessions
- Reparations- 21
million silver
dollars
- China forced to recognise the
superiority of the West-
Isolationist way of life no longer
possible
- Chinese people impressed by power of the west
- Leads to desire to modernise
- 100 years reforms
- Christian missionarys allowed into China
- Taiping rebellion
- 20 million chinese dead
- Weakens the Qing