Chefoo_Convention
Chefoo Convention
1876 treaty between China and Great Britain
The Chefoo Convention, known in Chinese as the Yantai Treaty, was an unequal treaty between Britiain and Qing China, signed by Sir Thomas Wade and Li Hongzhang in Zhifu (now a district of Yantai) on 21 August 1876. The convention settled the Margary Affair in exchange for expanded commercial concessions to Britain.[1]
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The Chinese government has described the Chefoo Convention as an "unequal treaty".[2]