Study on Yongchang Guildhall of Qing Dynasty

DOI

10.2991/ssehr-17.2018.111How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Qing Dynasty, Yongchang, Guildhall, Function.

Abstract

The Guildhall is a non-governmental organization set by geographically-linked persons in the same origin or persons in the same industry for the purpose of offering sacrifices, meeting and promoting business. In the Qing Dynasty, Yongchang was one of the four major commercial metropolises in Yunnan Province (Kunming, Dali, Lin'an and Yongchang). Commercial trade was very prosperous then and the city's business classes were formed. Various types of halls established by businessmen groups from all over China. The Guildhall safeguarded the interests of merchants in all parts of Yongchang, promoted the prosperity of Yongchang's commodity economy, and promoted Yongchang became the commercial center for foreign trade. It is the embryonic form of Baoshan Guildhall today.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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