Unequal treaty
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Unequal treaties refer to a series of treaties signed during the 19th and early 20th centuries, between China (mostly the Qing dynasty) and various foreign powers (specifically the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, Russia, and Japan).[1] The agreements, often reached after a military defeat or a threat of military invasion, contained one-sided terms, requiring China to cede land, pay reparations, open treaty ports, give up tariff autonomy, legalise opium import, and grant extraterritorial privileges to foreign citizens.[2]
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Traditional Chinese | 不平等條約 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 不平等条约 | ||||||||||||
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Hangul | 불평등 조약 | ||||||||||||
Hanja | 不平等條約 | ||||||||||||
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Kanji | 不平等条約 | ||||||||||||
Kana | ふびょうどうじょうやく | ||||||||||||
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With the rise of Chinese nationalism and anti-imperialism in the 1920s, both the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party used the concept to characterize the Chinese experience of losing sovereignty between roughly 1840 to 1950. The term "unequal treaty" became associated with the concept of China's "century of humiliation", especially the concessions to foreign powers and the loss of tariff autonomy through treaty ports.
Japanese and Koreans also use the term to refer to several treaties that resulted in the loss of their sovereignty, to varying degrees. Japan and Qing China also signed treaties with Korea like the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876 and China–Korea Treaty of 1882, which granted some extent of privileges to Japan and China, respectively.