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Wikipedia: The Treaty of Nanking (also spelt Nanjing in pinyin) was a treaty signed on 29 August 1842 to mark the end of the First Opium War (1839–42) between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Qing Dynasty of China. It was the first of what the Chinese called the unequal treaties because Britain had no obligations in return. In the wake of China's military defeat, with British warships poised to attack the city, representatives from the British and Qing Empires negotiated aboard HMS Cornwallis anchored at Nanking.
![[The signing and sealing of the Treaty of Nanking.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/The_Signing_of_the_Treaty_of_Nanking_s.jpg "The signing and sealing of the Treaty of Nanking.")
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