00:05The Treaty of Wanpu, or Treaty of Wawa according to the Cantonese pronunciation, is one of the unequal treaties with a commercial purpose.
00:12between France and China, signed by Théodore de Lagrenay and Keying, Manchu governor of Guangdong, on October 24
00:181844, Father Joseph-Marie Calry serving as interpreter.
00:22By this treaty, China grants France the same privileges that it has granted to the Kingdom
00:26-United by the Treaty of Nanking and subsequent Sino-British treaties.
00:30These privileges included the opening of five ports to French trade: Canton, Fuzu, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Xiamen—extraterritorial privileges.
00:38For French citizens in China, fixed customs duties on Franco-Chinese trade and the right to
00:43France to post consuls in China.
00:45A supplementary agreement ensured the protection of Catholic missionaries by guaranteeing their return to the French consul if a
00:52The local Chinese authorities deemed them undesirable, and there was no persecution for the Catholic Chinese to whom nothing else
00:57nothing could be held against him.
00:59The treaty was negotiated in Macau and signed on the territory of the Chinese Empire aboard the
01:03The French steam corvette Archimède on the Pearl River off Wanpu Island, Wawa, today
01:08'Today in the port of Canton.
01:09THANKS.
01:10THANKS.
