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▪ I. ‖ hong|hɒŋ|
Also 8 haung.
[ad. Chinese hang row, rank.]
In China, a series of rooms or buildings used as a warehouse, factory, etc.; spec. (a) one of the foreign factories formerly maintained at Canton; (b) the corporation of Chinese merchants at Canton who (before the treaty of Nanking in 1842) had the monopoly of trade with Europeans; (c) a foreign trading establishment in China or Japan.
1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 458 The English have no settled Factory at Canton, and are only permitted to hire large Hongs, or Houses, near the water side. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. 227 (Y.) When I arrived at Canton the Hapoa ordered me lodgings..in a Haung or Inn belonging to one of his Merchants. 1797Sir G. Staunton Embassy China II. 565 (Y.) A Society of Hong, or united merchants, who are answerable for one another, both to the Government and to the foreign nations. 1836J. F. Davis Chinese I. iii. 87 (Stanf.) Some Hong merchants. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India i. viii. I. 512 The Chinese Government..confined the trade..to a certain number of native merchants of Canton incorporated under the designation of Hong. 1888A. J. Little Thro' Yangste Gorges 210 A hong..consists of a series of lofty one-storied buildings, situated one behind the other, and separated by intervening courtyards.
▪ II. hong(e
obs. inf. and pa. tense and pple. of hang v. |