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ID: 500372884
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Record Type: Person
Howqua (Chinese merchant, 1769-1843)

Note: Wealthy member of hong merchants group, who established a system of collective price-fixing that required the taking of a blood oath, as practiced by the Chinese merchant guilds.

Names:
Howqua (preferred,V,display)
Houqua (V,LC)
伍秉鑑 (V,Chinese,NA,U)
Wu Bingjian (V)
Wǔ Bǐngjiàn (V,Chinese (transliterated Pinyin),NA,U)

Nationalities:
Chinese (preferred)

Roles:
merchant (preferred)

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Fujian (China) (province)
Died:  Canton province (China) (province)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Non-Artists
 ........  Howqua (I)

Biographies:
(Chinese merchant, 1769-1843) ..... [VP Preferred]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
伍秉鑑 ........ [VP]
........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Houqua ........ [VP]
...............  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 2007058067
Howqua ........ [VP Preferred]
...............  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
...............  J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
...............  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Wǔ Bǐngjiàn ........ [VP]
........................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Wu Bingjian ........ [VP]
........................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
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