Talk:Treaty of Nanking

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Legalizing of the Opium trade

I have read somewhere that the treaty ended with the Chinese having forced to legalize the Opium trade. Troop350 21:31, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

The treaty did not legalize opium, but the Chinese authorities were forced to tolerate the trade. Later, when the Treaty of Tianjin was signed, they were forced to legalize the trade.--Amban 12:40, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
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Moved

This article has been renamed from Treaty of Nanjing to Treaty of Nanking as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 06:06, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

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Currency

Great Britain received 21 million dollars in compensation.

Was the transaction actually in dollars? --Calair 04:39, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

I noticed this too...My guess is it was copied from a American history book, the figure should be given in pounds instead--Josquius 17:53, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

That was Chinese currency unit.--Jusjih 04:07, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
And the unit is the Mexican or Maria Theresa dollar. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 13:29, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
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representatives

Who represented UK and who represented Qing China? Bennylin 23:28, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I have not figured out, but you may want to read s:Treaty of Nanking to find the answer.--Jusjih 04:13, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
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Imperialism

China is evil.The British brought Democracy and freedom to china.Free powder,me love you long time.--85.97.76.234 17:54, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

China was a very enclosed country until Britain broke the enclosure. If Hong Kong was not taken by Britain, it might have been similar to other Chinese cities now. British Hong Kong and Japanese Formosa were both more advanced than China in history.--Jusjih 04:09, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Who permits such language to ever appear on wikipedia. This is explicit discriminate another country. I would suggest remove this and ban the user

I recommend immediate delete the comment above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amam2000 (talk • contribs) 00:20, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

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Treaty of Nanking/ Nanjing

There are good arguments on either side, discussed above in the archive, but since the title of the article is "Nanking," it seems OK to leave it Nanking. Especially since the first sentence in the new edit would have been "Treaty of Nanjing or Treaty of Nanjing." There is a redirect from Nanjing in any case. ch (talk) 05:27, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

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