[DOC] [TLE] Treaty of Nanking - Wikipedia [PAR] The Treaty of Nanking or Nanjing was a peace treaty which ended the First 
Opium War ... British troops would remain in Gulangyu and Zhoushan until the 
Qing ... agreed to make Hong Kong Island a crown colony, ceding it to the British 
Queen "in ... the Convention of Peking (1860), was transferred to the PRC on 1 
July 1997. [DOC] [TLE] British Empire - Wikipedia [PAR] The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates 
and other ... Fourteen overseas territories remain under British sovereignty. .... 
This period, until the loss of the Thirteen Colonies after the American War of ..... 
Britain was again the beneficiary of peace treaties: France ceded the Ionian 
Islands,... [DOC] [TLE] Treaty of Nanking - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Nov 5, 2008 ... China, apart from small European enclaves such as Hong Kong and nearby ... 
Great Britain acquired Hong Kong Island in 1842, Kowloon ... Subsequently, 
Hong Kong Island was ceded to Britain in 1842 under the Treaty of Nanking, ... 
World War II, the colony remained under British governance until 1997. [DOC] [TLE] Treaty of Nanjing | China-United Kingdom [1842] | Britannica.com [PAR] Sep 1, 2015 ... China paid the British an indemnity, ceded the territory of Hong Kong, and ... 
Signature page of the Treaty of Nanjing, signed August 29, 1842,... [DOC] [TLE] China Overview - Collazo Farm [PAR] Hong Kong was a British dependency from the 1840s until July 1, 1997, when it 
... One year later, China and Britain signed the Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking) that 
ceded Hong Kong Island and adjacent small islands in perpetuity to Britain. ..... 
An unequal treaty, China gets nothing in return, although opium remains illegal. [DOC] [TLE] Hong Kong | Journeys International [PAR] Hong Kong is situated on a peninsula and series of islands on the south coast of 
... Hong Kong is one of the world's leading international financial centers, with a 
... the British resumed control until 1997, when China regained sovereignty. ... 
and was formally ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Nanking at the end of the 
war. [DOC] [TLE] China: Phrase Guide - Vantage Adventures [PAR] One way to understand China's sweeping history is through its monumental 
achievements. ... tariffs from the west and lost the island of Hong Kong to the 
British until 1997, .... Hangzhou, founded in 221 BC, is the capital of the small but 
prosperous ... by the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 which ceded Hong Kong to the 
British. [DOC] [TLE] June 26, 2008 [PAR] in this 1847 novel Jane Eyre One of this ancient Greek mathematician's axioms is 
that all right angles ... man Napoleon The Treaty of Nanking ceded this island & 
smaller adjacent ones to the British, who remained until 1997 Hong Kong This... [DOC] [TLE] The Hong Kong Accord as a Model for Dealing with Other ... - JStor [PAR] Sep 26, 1984 ... intensified in economic, social, political and cultural terms until today ... The first 
one, the Treaty of Nanking, ceded Hong Kong Island and some adjacent .... June 
30, 1997, the British Government is responsible for the ... The laws currently in 
force will remain basically unchanged, the Govern ..... far smaller. [DOC] [TLE] Cities - Going To China [PAR] Jan 1, 2000 ... It was one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China because it has been the ... 
small peninsula attached to China's southern coast and 236 islands in the South 
... was formally ceded by China the following year under the Treaty of Nanking. 
Parts of the adjacent Kowloon Peninsula were ceded to Britain in... [DOC] [TLE] Jon Halliday: Hong Kong: Britain's Chinese Colony. New Left ... [PAR] Though geographically small, Hong Kong is one of the world's major .... of Hong 
Kong, ceded to Britain 'in perpetuity' under the terms of the Treaty of Nanking (
1842). ... Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula, and the main island adjacent to 
the .... Thereafter the situation remained ambiguous, until May 1946, when 
Chiang... [DOC]

Question: The Treaty of Nanking ceded this island & smaller adjacent ones to the British, who remained until 1997
Answer: Hong Kong