POLI 279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Treaty Ports, Extraterritoriality, Atlantic Charter
15 May 2016
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There was freedom of mobility unlike the guangzhou system. Allowed to proselytize: converting others to your way of thinking. Guangzhou limited contact with foreigners, treaty port allowed foreigners to bring in their ideas like capitalism etc. Introduced the printable of extraterritoriality: you are a foreigner living in another country, no matter what you do i that"s country you can"t be accountable for anything under the law. Your home gov hasto prosecute you, foreigners enjoyed this. Indemnity/reparations - a clause in a treaty that compelled losing state to pay winning state for losses incurred during war. Treaty of shimonoseki: first sinojapanese war : japanese take korean peninsula, taiwan and pescadores. Japanese won the war and went to china to try to invade them (1884- Every place in africa and china was colonized. Decolonization began ; was an unequal process. Third world and global south is a product of decolonization. Why did decolonization occur, was a product of many things.
