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Port Augusta
Port Augusta city (1991 pop. 14,595), South Australia, S Australia, at the head of Spencer Gulf. It is a railroad center.... Read more |
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Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide city (1996 pop. 37,559), South Australia, S Australia, a suburb of Adelaide, on an inlet of Gulf St. Vincent. It is the principal port and wool-trading center of the state. The chief exports are wheat, flour, and wool. Sulfuric acid, processed foods, and automobile parts are made. ... Read more |
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treaty port
treaty port port opened to foreign trade by a treaty. The term is usually confined to ports in those countries that formerly strongly objected to foreign trade or attempted altogether to exclude it. Thus it is used especially in reference to Japan and China. Those countries had admitted trade with... Read more |
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Porte
PORTE PORTE. Porte or, more precisely, the Sublime Porte (bab-i â Read more |
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Dalian
Dalian or Talien , Rus. Dalny, Jap. Dairen, city (1994 est. pop. 1,855,200), S Liaoning prov., China, on the Liaodong peninsula in the Bay of Korea. It has annexed Lüshun (Port Arthur), with which it was formerly combined into the joint municipality of Lüda. With a huge,... Read more |
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Rorschach
Rorschach , town (1990 pop. 9,535), St. Gall canton, NE Switzerland, on Lake Constance. A prosperous commercial town in the Middle Ages, Rorschach is a resort and the largest Swiss port on the lake.... Read more |
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Shantou
Shantou or Swatow , city (1994 est. pop. 718,800), SE Guangdong prov., China, a port on the South China Sea, in the Han River delta. When it was opened to foreign trade after the second Opium War , it was a minor fishing village. It became a special economic zone in 1979, which brought new... Read more |
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CHINA
...language taught in China.Chinese Although Chinese...spoken by millions in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia...and elsewhere in South-East Asia. It is often contrasted...Guangzhou (Kwangchow, Canton), where PIDGIN...trade jargon of the ports, now ... |
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origins of the war
...December 1937, and Canton in October 1938...eastern quarter of China, together with all the major ports. In July 1940...northern French Indo-China. In July 1941...southern French Indo-China, where the Japanese...Dutch colonies in ... |
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Agoda Offers Great Rates on China Hotels for the 108th Canton Fair.
...hotels during the 108th Canton Fair. Singapore...year, the beautiful South China city of Guangzhou plays host to the China Import and Export...international trading port makes it a fitting place for the Canton Fair. From the ... |
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China opens Canton to foreign banks. (Brief Article)
...The People's Bank of China has decided to let six...banks set up branches in Canton, capital of the booming...the Beijing-controlled China News Service said. Foreign...economic zones in the south and along the coast and in the eastern port ... |
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The return to Confucius? (traditional Chinese wisdom and China's economic...
...the outskirts of Canton was called Chi...s War Lord in South China. I was a student...in China but in South Korea, Japan...in the trade at Canton, China's only permitted port of entry to ... |
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Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the...
...of the network, the South Chinese trading port of Canton. He also briefly looks...north-west coast to Canton, and Boston, the home...substitute for specie in the China trade. Gibson attributes...monopoly of trade between ... |
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Islam's lasting connection with China
...earliest contact with China during the caliphate...dispatched a deputation to China in AD 650, eight...said to have died in Canton, today's Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province...to the southeastern port of ... |
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Harvesting Mountains: Fujian and the China Free Trade, 1757-1937
...Mountains: Fujian and the China Tea Trade, 1757-1937...with the advent of the "Canton system," which restricted...foreign trade to the single port of Canton in South China, and ends with the onset...lose market share to ... |
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Port city of Guangzhou is gateway to adoption in China.(Travel)
...Guangzhou (formerly Canton) in southern China is the central adoption...s Republic of China. A walk around...streets close to the China Hotel reveals scores...Southern China, a port at the head of the...which flows into the ... |
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Silk route and ancient China
...Africa and to Red Sea ports. As Chinese Silk...goods increased and China had to create more...addition to this, China's four main inventions...cities sprung up in China. Cities such as...Urumqi and ports like Canton became ... |
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Silk route and ancient China.
...Africa and to Red Sea ports. As Chinese Silk...goods increased and China had to create more...addition to this, China's four main inventions...cities sprung up in China. Cities such as...Urumqi and ports like Canton became ... |
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Glamour capital reborn: the Paris of the East, Shanghai is challenging Hong...
...future stature as China's global city...seem to argue that China's future will...Garden, in the south of town, look Old...world and rural China. It was even a...4542) and the Port-man Ritz-Canton (800-241-3333... |
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