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CHAPTER 4 Early Eighteenth-century EEIC Porcelain Trade in Canton 1729-c.1740
arrived quite late in August. The Pearl River leading from Macau to Canton was easily
accessible on the monsoon winds to foreigners.
Map 4 The Gulf of Canton (The Pearl River Estuary).
Source: P. W. Fay, The Opium War, 1840-1842 (Chapel Hill, N.C,1975), p.16.
In Canton, trade with foreigners was regulated by the guild of Hong merchants.
Hong merchants were a group of dealers licensed by the local government at Canton,
who have entitled to trade foreigners directly. This system was intended to regulate
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