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James Flint (Chinese name: 洪任輝, Hóng Rènhuī, 1720 — unknown) [1] was an 18th-century British merchant and diplomat employed by the East India Company and noted for his role in precipitating the Canton System of Chinese trade with the West.
Englishman James Flint, a long-term East India Company supercargo and a fluent speaker of Chinese, [17] became the focus of the impetus for change. Flint had been repeatedly warned to remain in Canton during the trading season and not to venture north in search of commercial opportunities.
c. 1785 sketch for William Daniell's 1806 The European Factories, Canton William Daniell's c. 1805 View of the Canton Factories The factories c. 1807 The 1822 fire The ruins of the initial factories after the 1822 fire European Factories at Canton (c. 1840) by Auguste Borget The layout of the factories just before the 1841 fire British troops welcoming Viceroy Kiyeng after the Expedition to ...
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 ...
James Flint was a British and Australian architect. A number of his works are heritage-listed. Early life Flint was born in 1862 in Eppleworth, Hull, Yorkshire, England, the son of James Flint and Annie Eliza Sherwood. Architectural career Flint was articled to the Manchester firm of architects and building surveyors Sherwood and Peverley. He then moved to London and practiced there for about ...
Macartney himself became ridiculed, with caricatures showing him debasing himself before the Emperor. Macartney became more hostile and negative towards China in his later writings, saying China's power was an illusion and that Qing China would decline and eventually collapse. Macartney predicted that China might collapse within his lifetime. [35]
President Donald Trump has been sworn back into the White House, and with him returns the classic soda button. The valet button, which the president used to order Diet Coke beverages between 2017 ...
Kenmore House is a two storeyed brick building erected c. 1894 as a residence for John Ferguson on the Athelstane Range overlooking Rockhampton. Its design is attributed to Rockhampton architect, James Flint. [1] Ferguson arrived in Rockhampton during the 1860s and quickly established himself as a builder and contractor.