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Antique map of the Chinese Empire from 1902, showing provincial boundaries, major cities, rivers, and neighboring regions. Insets in the lower left and right corners display detailed maps of Hong Kong and the area around Peking (Beijing) and Tientsin. The map has a detailed, pastel color scheme typical of early 20th-century atlases. Treaty of Shimonoseki
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Antique map of the Chinese Empire from 1902, showing provincial boundaries, major cities, rivers, and neighboring regions. Insets in the lower left and right corners display detailed maps of Hong Kong and the area around Peking (Beijing) and Tientsin. The map has a detailed, pastel color scheme typical of early 20th-century atlases.
China, c. 1902 Map of China and surrounding regions, from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, c. 1902.

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unequal treaty, in Chinese history, any of a series of treaties and agreements in which China was forced to concede many of its territorial and sovereignty rights. They were negotiated during the 19th and early 20th centuries between China and foreign imperialist powers, especially Great Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia, and Japan. Patterned largely on the terms of an accord in 1835 between China and the khanate of Kokand (in parts of present-day...

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