Treaty of Whampoa

The Treaty of Huangpu (Chinese黄埔 条约/黄埔 条约, Pinyin Huángpǔ tiáoyuē ) was on October 24, 1844 in the village of Huangpu, now a district of the city of Guangzhou, concluded between Qing China and France and belongs to the series of so-called unequal contracts.

Content, it is closely related to the Treaty of Nanking with Britain in 1842 and the Treaty of Wanghia with the U.S. by 1844, also eliminated in relation to France, the hitherto customary trade restrictions and accepts French citizens by the Chinese judiciary from. In addition, their right is conceded to take in the absence of a French consul -site assistance of diplomatic missions of other Western States service in China. Furthermore, the tolerance of the activities of Catholic missionaries was written and directed against particular abolished here, going back to Emperor Yongzheng edicts.