Canton

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" . . . . In the 18th century the demand for Chinese luxury goods (particularly silk, porcelain, and tea) created a trade imbalance between China and Britain. ...
1684-1856 Thirteen Factories AKA Canton Factories
1757-1842 Canton System
1789 Initially, Derby, like most Americans, must have been optimistic about the trade with China. In 1789, there were at least sixteen American vessels at Canton.
1827-1878 Olyphant & Co.
Guangzhou
The firm focused on Opium and by the 1820s, Cushing was known as the most influential of all the foreigners in Canton, having struck up a close relationship with the merchant Houqua, who at his death in 1843 was said to be the richest man in the world.