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CHAPTER 7 Porcelain Dealers and their Role in Trade

customers, they managed to reduce the risk of being rejected. As long distance traders,

except for commercial network, Canton porcelain dealers also had to set up a huiguan

to maintain adequate contact with local manufactures. The fact that Guangzhou and

Zhaoqing shared one huiguan indicated further valuable information on the

production of enamelled porcelain in the eighteenth century. In essence, this chapter

has applied the approach of network to show how porcelain dealers played their roles

in the trade.

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