Weihai Travel Guide

Weihai is a prefecture-level seaport city located on the northern coast of Shandong Peninsula, about 65 kilometers east of the city of Yantai, and situated near the eastern extremity of the peninsula. During the Qing (CE 1644-1911) Dynasty colonial period, or during the period in which trade and territorial concessions were forced upon China as part of the 1858 Treaty of Tiensin - more commonly known by the Chinese as the Unequal Treaties (the first such treaty was the 1848 Treaty of Nanking between the government of the UK and the Qing government) - the city of Weihai, leased by the British for 99 years, was known as Weihai Garrison.

The city was also known by the British as Port Edward, just as the corresponding port located on Liaodong Peninsula on the other side of the Bay of Bohai (Shandong Peninsula to the south and Liaodong Peninsula to the north form a set of pincers,... [ View Details ]