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Description: | A photograph entitled 'The Foreign Settlement', taken by John Thomson, c. 1871. The photograph shows the European settlement and trading centre at Fuzhou on Nantai island, established after the Opium War of 1839 to 1842 when China was forced to accept Fuzhou as a treaty port. By the 1850s it was the main port in China and also the world�s largest tea-exporting centre. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | photograph | Temporal: | c. 1871 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Thomson, John (1837-1921) | Identifier: | 1992-5063/10 | Go to resource |
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