The Canton System (1757–1842; Chinese: 一口通商; pinyin: Yīkǒu tōngshāng; Jyutping: jat1 hau2 tung1 soeng1, lit. "Single [port] trading relations") served...

The Canton System (German: Kantonsystem or Kantonssystem) or Canton Regulation (Kantonreglement) was a system of recruitment used by the Prussian army...

Look up canton or Canton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Canton may refer to: Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division...

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River...

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...

Island of Hong Kong to the British as a colony, to essentially end the Canton system that had limited trade to that port and allow trade at five “treaty...

diminished after the opening of the treaty ports and the end of the Canton System under the terms of the 1842 Anglo-Chinese Treaty of Nanking. After the...

(formerly known as Canton) as intermediaries between Western and Chinese merchants during the 18th and 19th centuries under the Canton System. The name "hong"...

anti-Qing resistance. Later, the need to control trade gave birth to the Canton System of the Thirteen Factories (1757–1842), where trade was legalised but...

included selling Prussian overseas colonies and the foundation of the Canton system, as well as the conquest of the port of Stettin. His death in 1740 marked...

the Qianlong emperor approved the Canton system, which restricted the burgeoning overseas trade with Europeans to Canton and granted a monopoly on that trade...

The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate...

creating the Canton System in 1756, granting a monopoly of trade to the merchants of the Thirteen Factories and restricted it to Canton (as Guangzhou...

between China and Britain. European silver flowed into China through the Canton System, which confined incoming foreign trade to the southern port city of...

overturning the monopoly then held by the southern port of Canton (Guangzhou) under the Canton System. The British also established a base on Hong Kong. American...

Canton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,370 at the 2020 census. Canton is part of Greater Boston, about...

Guangzhou (then usually romanized as Canton) for export to the west via the Thirteen Factories of the Canton System. Canton famille rose in the 19th century...

Canton (/ˈkæntən/) is a city in Stark County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. It is the eighth-most populous city in Ohio, with a population...

the East India Company and noted for his role in precipitating the Canton System of Chinese trade with the West. One of the first English people to learn...

Canton Township (commonly known simply as Canton) is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A western suburb of Detroit, Canton...

of Netanya. Unlike many Zionists, Ben-Avi favored establishment of a canton system for Palestine instead of a single Jewish state or a single Arab state...

the First Opium War. Canton was the only port in China open to foreign countries, mostly European, for trade under the Canton System. In the early stages...

guild of Chinese merchants or hongs, operated the import–export monopoly in Canton (present-day Guangzhou) during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). During the...

The Republic and Canton of Jura (officially in French: République et Canton du Jura), less formally the Canton of Jura or Canton Jura (/ˈ(d)ʒʊərə/ JOOR-ə...

[ɡraʊˈbʏndn̩] ), more formally the Canton of the Grisons or the Canton of Graubünden, is one of the twenty-six cantons of Switzerland. It has eleven districts...

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. A Hokkien by his paternal...

The canton of Zurich is an administrative unit (canton) of Switzerland, situated in the northeastern part of the country. With a population of 1,553,423...

amended by a national referendum, a provision inspired by the Swiss Canton system. The respective state governments of Australia also have constitutional...

regulated through the Canton System, which emerged gradually through a series of imperial edicts in the 17th and 18th centuries. This system channeled formal...

sewage system, water works, and electrical lighting. St. Lawrence University was founded here in 1856, and the State University of New York at Canton (northwest...