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- The Cohong, sometimes spelled kehang or gonghang, a guild of Chinese merchants or hongs, operated the import–export monopoly in Canton (present-day Guangzhou)...
- Qianlong Emperor, they became officially sanctioned as a monopoly known as the Cohong. Thereafter Chinese merchants dealing with foreign trade (Chinese: 洋行; pinyin:...
- trade. The Cohong reviewed the cargo of each ship and collected tariffs that were then p****ed onto the Hoppo (Inspector of Customs). The Cohong was at the...
- function of the Cohong was the traditional bond signed between a Cohong member and a foreign merchant. This bond stated that the receiving Cohong member was...
- 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 ancestry...
- strongly at the Cohong's control over prices, advances, and exchange rates and predicted the death of trade with China. In fact, the Cohong helped ensure...
- forty individual houses in 1725 known as the Cohong system. Firmly established by 1757, the Canton Cohong was an ****ociation of thirteen business firms...
- host foreign traders and the products purchased, under the aegis of the cohong. The hong (or Factories) were usually owned by hong merchants such as Pan...
- station were grouped together under a larger organization by Yongzheng called Cohong in 1725. This group was responsible for policing all trade within the Canton...
- v t e European and American trade in Qing China Topics Canton System Cohong East India Company James Flint Old China Trade Thirteen Factories Chinese Hongs...