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Year:
1842
Short description:
Treaty of Nanjing
Medium description:
Opened up the treaty ports of Amoy (Xiamen), Canton (Guangdong), Fuzhou, Ningbo and Shanghai to British and other Western nations.
Tags:
history of English
in China
Kirkpatrick, Andy (2007). World Englishes: Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.137]