Ten Great Merchant Guilds
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The Ten Great Merchant Guilds (simplified Chinese: 十大商帮; traditional Chinese: 十大商幫; pinyin: Shí Dà Shāngbāng) were the variously influential groups of merchants and businessmen in Chinese history. They were:[1]
- Shanxi Merchants (晉商) - also known as Jin merchants
- Huizhou Merchants - based in modern Huangshan, Anhui
- Longyou Merchants (龍游商幫) - based in modern western Zhejiang province
- Ningbo Merchants (寧波商幫)
- Dongting Merchants 洞庭商幫 - based in the Dongting region of modern Suzhou
- Jiangxi Merchants (江西商幫) - also known as the Jiangyou Merchants (江右商幫)
- Guangdong Merchants
- Shaanxi Merchants
- Shandong Merchants
- Fujian (Min) Merchants
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- ^ Robert Gardella; Andrea McElderry; Jane K. Leonard (2017). Chinese Business History - Interpretive Trends and Priorities for the Future. Taylor & Francis.
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