Encyclopedia > Fuzhou

Article Content

Fuzhou

Fuzhou is a city on the coast of China, largest city in and capital of Fujian province.

Fuzhou, or Foochow as it was then anglicized, was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanjing (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between Britain and China. The other ports were Guangzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo and Shanghai.

External link

A page on Fuzhou history, emphasizing relations with the West: http://www.minriver.org/new_page_3.htm

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Bugatti

... are amongst the most sought after in the world by collectors, fetching prices as high as US$10 million. The best-known collectors of Bugatti were Hans and Fritz ...