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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 following is a timeline of the history of the Chinese city of Guangzhou, also formerly known as Panyu, [citation needed] Canton, and Kwang-chow. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Peasant Movement Training Institute or Peasant Training School [1] was a school in Guangzhou (then romanized as "Canton"), China, operated from 1923 to 1926 during the First United Front between the Nationalists and Communists. It was located in a former Confucian temple built in the 14th century. The site now houses a museum to Guangzhou's ...
The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845. Hong Kong University Press, 2005. ISBN 962-209-749-9. Paul Arthur Van Dyke. Merchants of Canton and Macao: Politics and Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Trade. Hong Kong University Press.2011. ISBN 978-988-8028-91-7
It was constructed from 1900 to 1936 and, from their former romanizations, was known at the time as the Canton–Hankow railway. The completion of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge in 1957 finally linked the two lines into a single contiguous railway and its former track now forms the southern leg of the Beijing–Guangzhou railway .
The privilege during this period made Guangzhou one of the top three cities in the world. [54] Operating from the Thirteen Factories located on the banks of the Pearl River outside Canton, merchants traded goods such as silk, porcelain ("fine china") and tea, allowing Guangzhou to become a prosperous city. Links to overseas contacts and ...
Canton Fair Complex. The Canton Fair Complex (Chinese: 广交会展馆; Jyutping: gwong 2 gaau 1 wui 2 zin 2 gun 2), formerly known as Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center (Chinese: 广州国际会议展览中心; Jyutping: gwong 2 zau 1 gwok 3 zai 3 wui 6 ji 5 zin 2 laam 5 zung 1 sam 1), is located on Pazhou Island in the Guangzhou (Canton City) in the People's Republic of ...
In 1936 the Hankow-Canton (Hankou-Guangzhou) railway was completed. [11] With the Kowloon-Canton (Hong Kong-Guangzhou) railway, this formed a rapid all-rail link from south China to central and northern China. [11] For the first sixteen months of the war about 60,000 tons of goods transited per month through the port of Hong Kong. [12]