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First Monday Trade Days. Coordinates: 32°33′13″N 95°52′00″W. First Monday Trade Days Main Gate. First Monday Trade Days is a monthly flea market held in Canton, Texas. The market is actually held on the Thursday through Sunday preceding the first Monday of each month. It purports to be the largest and oldest continually operated flea ...
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 ...
The Canton System (1757–1842; Chinese: 一口通商; pinyin: Yīkǒu tōngshāng; Jyutping: jat1 hau2 tung1 soeng1, lit. "Single [port] trading relations") served as a means for Qing China to control trade with the West within its own country by focusing all trade on the southern port of Canton (now Guangzhou). The protectionist policy arose ...
The Thirteen Factories, the area of Guangzhou to which China's Western trade was restricted from 1757 to 1842 The gardens of the American factory at Guangzhou c. 1845. The Old China Trade (Chinese: 舊中國貿易) refers to the early commerce between the Qing Empire and the United States under the Canton System, spanning from shortly after the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 to ...
The 2024 Canton Flea Market Arts and Crafts Show returns for one-day event held on Thursday, May 9. It also runs Oct. 10 this year. The Canton Flea Marketis always held on the second Thursdays in ...
Canton Fair. Coordinates: 23°06′11″N 113°21′27″E. Trade fair in Guangzhou (formerly Canton), Guangdong, China. The Canton Fair or China Import and Export Fair, is a trade fair held in the spring and autumn seasons each year since the spring of 1957 in Canton (Guangzhou), Guangdong, China. [1] It is the oldest, largest, and the most ...
The Canton Farmers Market is 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday in downtown Canton, featuring such products as fruits, vegetables, meats, bread, flowers and honey. Local farmers, bakers, vendors and artisans ...
The current aggregate polling estimate of undecided voters is 3%. While 3% or 4% sounds significant in a tight race, that figure is not “enough votes in play to really move the needle ...