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The treaty was signed on the 29th August 1842 aboard the HMS Cornwallis. It ended the first Opium War (1839-1842) between Britain and China. It was the first of a series of unequal treaties that the Chinese had to sign with Western countries after being defeated. China was forced to open to the international market and to the opium trade. The ruling Qing dynasty had to pay an indemnity of 21 millions dollars and to cede the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
On loan from the National Archives to the British Museum for the exhibition:
China's hidden century.
Looty was thought to belong to the Chinese emperor Xianfeng. The British troops taken it in the emperor Summer Palace that was looted at the end of the second Opium War (1856-1860). It was taken to Britain and given to queen Victoria. It was the first dog in Britain of what would be called the Pekinese dog breed.
Lent by King Charles III to the British Museum for the exibition:
China's hidden century.
The British Tea Clipper Cutty Sark at Greenwich in London. I took this photo in the summer of 2019 on one of my regular trips to London.
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
Children playing in a playground in front of Kowloon's Walled City. A fort was originally constructed here in 1847 by the imperial Chinese government to check the influence of the British. However, with the British victory in the Opium Wars, Kowloon and the New Territories were leased to them for 99 years.
Under the 1898 Peking Convention governing the settlement, the Walled City was excluded and officially remained Chinese sovereign territory until its residents were resettled and the buildings demolished in 1993. A park was constructed in its place. In addition to the classical Jiangnan-style garden found here today, the imperial commandant's yamen (government office) is preserved, along with the original stone plaques from the fort's South Gate, stone tablets with Qing official inscriptions, and two cannon from the original fort. (Rick Green photo.)
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The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
Chinese Joss House.
After the bombing of the french and english troups in the year 1858.
(Opium War)
A Negretti and Zambra stereoview made by P. Rossier (about 1860)
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
The Cutty Sark is a British Tea Clipper launched in Scotland in 1869. Now a Historic Museum Ship Greenwich London
Manuel Tavares Bocarro, Macao. Captured Bocca Tigris Forts, 1841 during the Opium War. Tower of London, London, UK.
There I was in Nanjing doing some work in my capacity as international archaeologist adventurer when i happened across an important archaeological artifact that sheds some light on Victorian international relations. It's a small fragment of the original 'Treaty of Nanking' that was presented to the Chinese by the British after the treaty was ratified by Queen Victoria and Doaguang Emperor in 1842. This was, of course, back when the British Empire was really something to behold and British foreign policy was perhaps a trifle more aggressive.
As befits my part-time international adventuring job (sadly it pays better than art) I hastened the fragment out of the country at the first opportunity from under the noses of the curious authorities (therein lies another tale for another time). Nonetheless it is an interesting curio with a certain historical value that should fetch a handsome sum from some museum or other. I believe Queen Victoria had thought it amusing to get the treaty 'set in stone' so they would get the message that little bit more clearly. I have had to censor this for public consumption however. How simply delightful all the same!
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Title: Treaty of Nanking fragment
Media: Stencils and spraypaint on slate
Size: 24 x 50cm approx
I'm not too sure if Hero Stele is the name of the sculptor or another name for the sculpture. It's in the Zhenhai War Memorial Museum, and is called Call to Arms I think.
Designer: Song Zhijian (宋志坚)
1975, March
Great victory at Niulan Hill
Niulan'gang dajie (牛栏岗大捷)
Call nr.: BG E15/118 (Landsberger collection)
Representation of a battle from 1841, during the First Opium War, near Guangzhou.
More? See: chineseposters.net/
Designer: Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Youth League (共青团中央宣传部)
1994, December
How can we forget
Women zen neng wangdiao (我们怎能忘掉)
Call nr.: BG E15/139 (Landsberger collection)
Second of Aiguo zhuyi jiaoyu xuanchuan zuhua [Patriotic Education Propaganda Poster Set], in commemmoration of the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's Struggle against Japan and of the international struggle against fascism (Jinian Zhongguo renmin kang shengli he shijie fan faxisi zhandou shengli wushi zhounian)
More? See: chineseposters.net/themes/patriotic-education-1994
I fulfilled a long held ambition earlier this month and walked the Taku Forts battlefields in China. My Great, Great Grandfather took part in the 1860 siege whilst serving with the 67th (Hampshire) Regiment. My picture shows the larger southern fort which has been incorporated into a fabulous new museum complex. The top picture taken in 1860 could be of any the four forts (note the French flag) although the similarity with my recent image is striking.
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The Third Battle of Taku Forts was an engagement of the Second Opium War, part of the British and French 1860 expedition to China. It took place at the Taku Forts (also called Peiho Forts) near Tanggu District (Wade-Giles: Pei Tang-Ho), approximately 60 kilometers (36 mi.) southeast of Tianjin City (Wide-Giles: Tientsin).
(Wikipedia)
Le Jardin Yu (le Jardin de la Pluie) est situé au cœur de la Vieille Ville à Shanghai, en Chine. Conçu entre 1559 et 1577 par la famille Pan, ce jardin chinois classique typique de la dynastie Ming a été mis à sac durant la guerre de l'Opium, puis la révolte de Taiping. Remis en l'état par le gouvernement de Shanghai entre 1956 et 1961, il a été déclaré monument national en 1982.
The Yu Garden (the Garden of the Rain) is located in the middle of the Old City in Shanghai, China. Designed between 1559 and 1577 by the Pan family, this typical traditional Chinese garden of the Ming Dynasty was ransacked during the Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion. Mended by the government of Shanghai between 1956 and 1961, it was declared a national monument in 1982.