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7 Cards in this Set
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Huigan
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-Native-place association
-Geographical medium for trade -Functions: --Serviced students visiting Beijing for Civil Service Exams. --Also serviced merchants -A guild of sorts with a shrine to a patron deity -Stored corpses -Often specialized in products from that area -1880's Shaanxi-Shanxi in Hankou |
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Cohong Merchants
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-Salt merchants of Yanghzou--example of wealthy merchants who were not part of the Gentry class.
-Evidence of blurring distinction between four Confucian classes. |
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Wu Bingjian
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-1769-1843
-1801-Becomes the CEO of salt trade -Amassed 26 million dollars; wealthiest merchant in China -Invested in American Railroads -Accumulated many accoutrement's of gentry class; literature, art, etc. |
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Pecking Opera
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-Qianlong Emperor puts on an opera in Anhui on his 80th birthday
-Opera singers recognize a market in Beijing -Peking opera in teahouses -State was ambivalent--saw it as a liability because of un-Confucian themes that could blur the hierarchy -Dan--the female role |
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Qianlong Emperor
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-1711-1799
-Fourth Qing Emperor -Patronized the arts |
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Eight Banners
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-Established in 1615
-Divided Manchu families into eight categories -Provided basic framework for Manchu military organization |
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Flower Boats
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-Integral part of Courtesan culture
-Located in Guangzhou -Courtesans sold services here |
