| One of the major exhibits featured at the exhibition of "A Century of China" - is an Imperial notice on the Treaty of Tianjin and the Convention of Peking issued by the Qing government in 1860.
Signed after the First Opium War, the Treaty of Nanjing did not resolve the problems created by the opium trade. Proposed revisions to the treaty contributed to the outbreak of the Second Opium War. The Qing government was forced to sign the Treaty of Tianjin in 1858 and the Convention of Peking in 1860.
(Photo courtesy of the Hong Kong Museum of History)
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