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CHAPTER 4 Early Eighteenth-century EEIC Porcelain Trade in Canton 1729-c.1740

waterfront immediately to the left of the English Factory. It is painted in detail so that

we may confidently regard details of architecture, railings and flags as evidence. In

this painting, next to the English Factory, there is a shop, judging it form the interior

of the shop and the samples of porcelain; it is probably a porcelain shop. According

to the material of Swedish resource, this shop was situated in one of the shopping

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streets in Canton: Hog Lane. Hog Lane was one of the two shopping streets that

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existed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Figure 4-2 Canton: Swedish, British and Dutch Factories. c.1750.
Gouache on silk, 64 x 80 cm, Private Collection.
Source: Patrick Conner, The China Trade 1600-1860 (Brighton: The Royal Pavilion,
Art Gallery Museums, 1986), p.29.

Eight and later thirteen trading posts were built in a row on the small island in

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European Style in the late eighteenth century. In the 1760s, the Chinese government

7 Hog Lane was called in Chinese ‘dou lan jie’. Paul A. Van Dyke has illustrated the development
of this street in the late eighteenth century. Where the name came from remained unclear because
the lack of resources. Paul A. Van Dyke, ‘The Shopping Street in the Foreign Quarter at Canton
1760-1843’, Revista de Cultura, 43(2013), pp.92-110. I would like to thank Professor Paul A. Van
Dyke for his generosity of sharing this article to me.
8 Dyke, ‘The Shopping Street,’ pp.92-110.
9 Johnathan Farris, ‘Thirteen Factories of Canton: An Architecture of Sino-Western Collaboration
and Confrontation,’ Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum,
14(2007), pp.66-83. In 1822, these factories were destroyed by fire and rebuilt in the same style.
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