The Thirteen Factories, also known as the Canton Factories, was a neighbourhood along the Pearl River in southwestern Guangzhou (Canton) in the Qing Empire...

settlement around the Mediterranean – "factories" were a unique institution born in medieval Europe. Originally, factories were organizations of European merchants...

pinyin: háng), managed all trade in the port. Operating from the Thirteen Factories located on the banks of the Pearl River outside Canton, in 1760, by...

Thirteen Ghosts (also known as 13 Ghosts and stylized as THIR13EN Ghosts) is a 2001 supernatural horror film directed by Steve Beck in his directorial...

Hong Kong Press. p. 149. Liang Jiabin (梁嘉彬) (1999). Survey of the Thirteen Factories (廣東十三行考) (in Chinese). Guangdong People's Publishing (广东人民出版社). Morse...

in the West as "Howqua" or "Howqua II", was a hong merchant in the Thirteen Factories, head of the E-wo hong and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was once...

ships at Pazhou while smaller craft ferried goods to and from the Thirteen Factories area of Guangzhou's western suburbs. Traders rented storage for ships...

Canton on 18 March, taking the Thirteen Factories with very few casualties and raising the Union Jack above the British factory. The city was partially occupied...

subsequently adopted by the Qing. This produced the Canton System of the Thirteen Factories, but also the opium smuggling that led to the First and Second Opium...

porcelain market was concentrated on a street several blocks north of the thirteen factory area. Until 1760, after the Cohong was created, all the small shopkeepers...

Republic of China Konzern The Hongs Japanese post-war economic miracle Thirteen Factories Addicott, David A. C. (2017). "The Rise and Fall of the Zaibatsu:...

living and traveling in China except for the limited area of the Thirteen Factories in Canton, now known as Guangzhou, and Macau. In the 1842 treaty ending...

Canton and Macau. He had a workshop in 'New China Street' among the Thirteen Factories in Canton. In the 1820s, Lam Qua is said by some contemporaries to...

which turmoil American cotton exports from the South declined. Lancashire factories replaced American cotton imports with Sassoon's Indian cotton. Along with...

(1639). By 1647, the company had 23 factories and settlements in India, and 90 employees.Many of the major factories became some of the most populated and...

(Guangzhou) in 1783 and later became the leader of the cohong of the Thirteen Factories under the stewardship of Howqua, who took over in 1803. Ewo later...

Zoet – Historical novel set in Dejima Nagasaki foreign settlement Thirteen Factories, a former area of Guangzhou, China, where the first foreign trade...

Coromandel coasts in India. Direct access to mainland China came in 1729 when a factory was established in Canton. In 1662, however, Koxinga expelled the Dutch...

the treaty abolished the former monopoly of the Cohong and their Thirteen Factories in Canton. Four additional "treaty ports" opened for foreign trade...

originally referred to the row of factories built outside of the city walls of Canton, near the Pearl River. The Thirteen Factories were used during the Canton...

Army, as well as a navy; and the purchase from Europeans of armament factories. The dynasty lost control of peripheral territories bit by bit. In return...

Guangzhou, China, which was located west of the old walled city. The Thirteen Factories trading enclave was located on its southern shore and the Shamian...

Guangdong-Guangxi established. 1856 British/French occupation begins. Thirteen Factories set on fire. 1859 – Shameen Island divided into French and British...

group of Chinese merchants known as the Cohong who operated from Thirteen Factories located on the banks of the Pearl River. One of the commodities that...

foreign traders, beginning the Canton System, with its Cohong and Thirteen Factories. During the mid-18th century, European powers began to pressure for...

System in 1756, granting a monopoly of trade to the merchants of the Thirteen Factories and restricted it to Canton (as Guangzhou was then known) in the south...

Guangzhou) during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912). He owned a factory in the Thirteen Factories district where his firm was favored by the English, Swedes...

Catholic authorities in Macau and went to the Thirteen Factories outside Guangzhou . The chief of the American factory at Canton offered the missionary for the...

The American Garden at the Thirteen Factories in Canton, 1844–45...

knocking out power to the city's subway lines. History of Guangzhou The Thirteen Factories c. 1805, displaying the flags of Denmark, Spain, the United States...