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  2. Battle of Canton (May 1841) - Wikipedia

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    Canton was the only port in China open to foreign countries, mostly European, for trade under the Canton System.In the early stages of this commerce the demand in foreign countries for commodities including tea, silk and porcelain greatly outweighed Chinese needs for foreign products, and thus a significant trade imbalance developed.

  3. Thirteen Factories - Wikipedia

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    The Thirteen Factories, also known as the Canton Factories, was a neighbourhood along the Pearl River in southwestern Guangzhou (Canton) in the Qing Empire from c. 1684 to 1856 around modern day Xiguan, in Guangzhou's Liwan District. These warehouses and stores were the principal and sole legal site of most Western trade with China from 1757 to ...

  4. Hong (business) - Wikipedia

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    The building was known as "the Ewo Hong", or "Ewo House", based on the Cantonese pronunciation of the company's Chinese name (怡和行, Cantonese: ji4 wo4 hong2, now 怡和洋行). [6] Jardines took the name from the earlier Ewo hong run by Howqua near Whampoa, Canton. [7] The term is most often used in reference to colonial Hong Kong companies.

  5. Cantonese restaurant - Wikipedia

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    Nearly all the Cantonese restaurants provide yum cha, dim sum, dishes, and banquets with their business varying between the hour of the day.Some restaurants try to stand out by becoming more specialised (focusing on hot pot dishes or seafood, for example), while others offer dishes from other Chinese cuisines such as Sichuan, Shanghai, Fujian (Teochew cooking, a regional variation of Guangzhou ...

  6. Cantonese cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Map showing major regional cuisines of China. Cantonese or Guangdong cuisine, also known as Yue cuisine (Chinese: 廣東菜 or 粵菜), is the cuisine of Cantonese people, associated with the Guangdong province of China, particularly the provincial capital Guangzhou, and the surrounding regions in the Pearl River Delta including Hong Kong and Macau. [1]

  7. Howqua - Wikipedia

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    Wu Bingjian (Chinese: 伍秉鑑; 1769 – 4 September 1843 [1]), trading as "Houqua" [2] and better known in the West as "Howqua" or "Howqua II", [a] [3] was a hong merchant in the Thirteen Factories, head of the E-wo hong and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was once the richest man in the world.

  8. Canton System - Wikipedia

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    The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845. Hong Kong University Press, 2005. ISBN 962-209-749-9. Paul Arthur Van Dyke. Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade. Hong Kong University Press.2011. ISBN 978-988-8028-91-7

  9. Category:Cantonese cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Cantonese cuisine (Chinese: 粵菜; pinyin: yuè cài) originates from the region around Canton in southern China's Guangdong province, and it is the origin of Hong Kong cuisine and Macau cuisine. Of the various regional styles of Chinese cuisine, Cantonese is the best-known outside China; a "Chinese restaurant" in a Western country will ...

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