Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT ·
Treaty of Nanking (1842)
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29 Aug 1842 — Qing China, defeated by Britain in the Opium War, cedes Hong Kong, pays 21 million silver dollars and opens five ports to foreign trade. That same summer, alarmed by news of Britain’s victories, the shogunate softened its order to fire on foreign ships.
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- Tokugawa shogunate and sakoku (chapter 1 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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