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Unequal Treaties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (461 words) |
 | The term Unequal Treaties, mainly used by China, refers to a series of treaties signed by several Asian states, including the Qing Empire in China, late Tokugawa Japan, and late Joseon Korea, with foreign powers, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
| China considered these treaties "unequal" because in most cases China saw itself as being forced to pay large amounts of reparations, open up ports, cede lands (such as Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula to the Great Britain), and make various other concessions of sovereignty to foreign "spheres of influence", following humiliating military defeats. |
| For China and Korea, the wait was somewhat longer, with China's unequal treaties completely dissolved only following Hong Kong's handover in 1997 (though it was agreed on in 1984 following talks between Deng Xiaoping and the British). |
| Chinese History - Qing Dynasty æ¸
event history (www.chinaknowledge.de) (4545 words) |
| China has been - and still is - a vast imperium that challenges the economical and political abilites of the ruling class. |
| China had lost her sovereignity over the import taxes, a field that normally provided the state treasury with a large income. |
| China's trade balance was critically endangered by these facts, and moreover by an inflation of the silver currency against the gold standard that was adopted by the Western countries. |
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