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I've been doing some reading which indicates that the British could have gotten Zhoushan/Chusan alternatively instead of Hong Kong in the Treaty of Nanjing.What would be the effects of Zhoushan,which are a group of islands just outside Hangzhou getting ceded in perpetuity to the British?Note that Zhoushan/Chusan and it's island groups seems to be much bigger than Hong Kong island.It seems to be actually bigger than Hong Kong and Kowloon plus the New territories.