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Hong (???), Chinese languages|Chinese word (transliteration|transliterated from Cantonese language|Cantonese) meaning "trading company" or store and generally used in the west for the trading companies out of Hong Kong, Macau and Canton, China that did internal trade with North China and South China|southern China during the early 19th century|19th to the 20th century.

For westerners, James Clavell's book, Noble House, is an excellent introduction to the intrigue, the means of financing everything from tea exports to opium imports is given within a fictional frame in this novel.
Trading Companies (??????)

  • Hutchison Whampoa (????????????)

  • Swire Group (??????) - formerly Butterfield and Swire

  • Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited (????????????)
Stores (???)

  • Nam Pak Hong (?????????)
Notes

  • The Chinese word ??? also means go, proceed, walk, circulate, carry out, to commit, and etc.

  • The English word Hong can be transliterated to other Chinese words, ???, ???, and etc.


Category:Companies of Hong Kong
Category:History of Hong Kong
Category:Economy of Hong Kong
Category:Macau
category:Companies of Macau
category:History of Macao
category:Cantonese terms
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Last Modified:   2005-11-04


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