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The 41 pages that link to Treaty of Nanking, each with the reason it gives.

• First Opium WarBroader topic: It formalized Britain's victory and reshaped foreign trade.

• NanjingBroader topic: The treaty bears the city’s name, though it was signed aboard a British ship nearby.

• Opium WarsBroader topic: It ceded Hong Kong Island and opened five treaty ports to British trade.

• Unequal treatiesBroader topic: It established the model of cession, indemnity, and port access that later treaties expanded.

• Treaty portsBroader topic: It formally established the first five treaty ports.

• Opium tradeBroader topic: It formalized concessions won after China's attempt to suppress the trade.

• Lin ZexuBroader topic: The treaty records the unequal settlement that followed the conflict Lin’s campaign helped set in motion.

• William JardineBroader topic: Its new trading arrangements fulfilled aims Jardine had pressed Britain to pursue.

• Century of HumiliationBroader topic: It inaugurated the unequal-treaty system associated with the period.

• Daoguang EmperorBroader topic: Daoguang’s government accepted this settlement after Britain’s military victories.

• History of Hong KongBroader topic: It established British possession of the island and began colonial Hong Kong.

• Henry John TempleBroader topic: The treaty embodied the unequal settlement produced by a war conducted under Palmerston’s foreign policy.