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CHAPTER 3 Enamelled Porcelain Consumption in Eighteenth-century China

changes in the demand for certain products, effective sale strategies, and of course

about the undermining of one’s own trade and business area by competing merchant

groups and, last but not least, the government. Meanwhile, most trade guilds were

directly linked with supra-regional and long-distance trade simultaneously; they

seemingly remained, for the most part, domestic trade institutions.

Guild Name Original location Establishing Time
1 Ruizhou Jiangxi(Northwest) Qing Dynasty
2 Rongcheng Sichuan Qing Dynasty
3 Huizhou Anhui Early Qing Dynasty
4 Qimen Anhui Early twentieth
Mid-Qing Dynasty
5 Hunan Hunan century
6 Fengxin Jiangxi(Northwest) Mid-Qing Dynasty
7 Hubei Hubei Qing Dynasty
8 Nanchang Jiangxi Mid-Qing Dynasty
9 Linjiang Jilin Mid-Qing Dynasty
10 Shanxi Shanxi Qing Dynasty
11 Jianchang Jiangxi Qing Dynasty
12 Ningguo Anhui Qing Dynasty
13 Suhu Suzhou, Hangzhou Early Qing Dynasty
14 Guangzhao Canton(Guangdong) Mid-Qing Dynasty
15 Ji An Jiangxi(South) Qing Dynasty
16 Raozhou Jiangxi(Northeast) Qing Dynasty
17 Fujian Fujian Qing Dynasty
18 Wuyuan Anhui Early Qing Dynasty
19 Fuzhou Jiangxi(East) Early Qing Dynasty
20 Shidai Anhui(South) Qing Dynasty
21 Fengcheng Jiang(middle) Early twentieth
Qing Dynasty
22 Ningbo Ningbo century
23 Hukou Jiangxi(North) Qing Dynasty
24 Duchang Jiangxi Qing Dynasty

Table 1 Trade guilds in Jingdezhen during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Source: Jingdezhen dimingzhi [Gazetteer of geographical names] (Nanchang, 1988), pp.725-
727, cited in Liang Miaotai, Ming Qing Jingdezhen Chengshi Jingji Yanjiu [The Economy

of Jingdezhen during Ming and Qing periods] (2nd edn, Nanchang: Jiangxi Renmin
chubanshe, 2004), p.322.

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