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The trading and production of opium spread from the Mediterranean to China by the 15th century. Opium has many derivatives, including morphine, codeine, oxycodone, and heroin. Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thome. thomÃ©
The opium trade was later legalised in the Treaties of Tianjin, which China concluded after the Second Opium War. The Nanking Treaty ended the old Canton System and created a new framework for China's foreign relations and overseas trade which would last for almost a hundred years.n 1841, a rough outline for a treaty was sent for the guidance of Plenipotentiary Charles Elliot. It had a blank after the words the cession of the islands of _____. Pottinger sent this old draft treaty on shore, with the letter s struck out of islands and the words Hong Kong placed after it.