单词 | hong merchant |
释义 | > as lemmashong merchant General attributive and appositive, esp. in hong merchant. ΚΠ 1769Hong merchants [see sense 2]. 1836 J. F. Davis Chinese I. iii. 87 Some Hong merchants. 1865 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1862–4 9 140 The cube..may have been employed as a Hong seal. 1900 N. Amer. Rev. Sept. 416 Commercial relations..were immensely profitable both to the European factors and to the hong merchants of Canton. 1940 C. Crow Foreign Devils in Flowery Kingdom xxi. 305 Sports were organized along hong lines. 1984 P. D. Curtin Cross-Cultural Trade in World Hist. xi. 251 The abolition of the hong monopoly also made way for new institutions, and the existing compradors were able to take advantage of the opening. 2006 R. W. N. Lamas Everything in Style 312 The origin of the hong merchants dates back to the late Ming period, when thirty-six hongs were trading with foreign countries. < as lemmas |
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