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__NOTOC__[[File: AnsonBurlingame1859.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px| Anson Burlingame in 1859]]
China and the United States concluded the Burlingame-Seward Treaty in 1868 to expand upon the Treaty of Tianjin of 1858. The new treaty established some basic principles that aimed to ease immigration restrictions and represented a Chinese effort to limit American interference in internal Chinese affairs.