[DOC] [TLE] China's soaring foreign trade: Made in Britain, c. 1840? | VOX ... [PAR] Dec 19, 2010 ... Until the year 1840, China's international trade was limited to only a handful of 
local firms in a single port, Canton (Guangzhou). ... was forced to open its 
economy to foreign trade at a large number of so-called treaty ports. ... Following 
the Opium Wars, China was forced to open its borders, providing the... [DOC] [TLE] China's Foreign Places: The Foreign Presence in China in the ... [PAR] Not only is the past a different country, it is also replete with unfinished business. 
From the perspective of the Chinese, the period 1842 to 1943 was a century of ... 
 Japan opened the port to foreign shipping in 1913, but its business. ... was 
with Canton (Guangzhou) one of the two Chinese ports open to foreign trade. [DOC] [TLE] Guangzhou - Wikipedia [PAR] Guangzhou historically romanised as Canton, is the capital and largest city of 
Guangdong ... Guangzhou was long the only Chinese port permitted for most 
foreign ... The city has also sometimes been known as Guangzhou Fu or Guangfu 
after its .... lost its privileged trade status as more and more treaty ports were 
opened to... [DOC] [TLE] China's Foreign Trade: Perspectives From the Past 150 Years ... [PAR] evidence on China's foreign trade during the treaty port era (18421948). China 
... These authors refer not only to opium addiction, but also ... that even though 
treaty ports were opened to foreign merchants, Western traders .... appeared in 
Siam (Thailand), Ceylon, and India, and by the 8th century Canton (Guangzhou). [DOC] [TLE] treaty port | Asian history | Britannica.com [PAR] Any of the ports that Asian countries, especially China and Japan, opened to 
foreign trade and residence beginning in the mid-19th century because ... trade 
conflict known as the first Opium War (183942); the treaty port system began in 
... port privileges for their own citizens not only in China and Japan but also in 
Vietnam... [DOC] [TLE] Guangzhou to Hong Kong, Geographical and Historical Notes [PAR] Hong Kong encompasses also 262 islands in the South China Sea , ... small 
walled town named Chuting  on the site of the modern Guangzhou as early 
... The kingdom was independent for almost a century before it was annexed by 
the ..... shall be the only Chinese port open to Western merchant vessels for trade
. [DOC] [TLE] England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60 - The Victorian Web [PAR] Jun 24, 2006 ... The Opium Trade, Seventh through Nineteenth Centuries ... Confucian China's 
attempts to exclude pernicious foreign ideas ... Prior to the 1830s, there was but 
one port open to Western merchants, Guangzhou (Canton) and but one ... not 
only with no soldiers to resist the enemy, but also with no money to... [DOC] [TLE] Opium Wars - SACU [PAR] Background to the British War with China 1839-1842. ... See also Opium in China 
... in the same condemnatory light by Chinese and foreign observers a century 
and a ... the Chinese government had imposed severe restrictions on foreign 
trade, ... At Guangzhou (Canton), which was the only port open to foreign 
commerce,... [DOC] [TLE] 8.4 Debates & Features [PAR] LOCATED on the coast of the South China Sea, Guangdong is blessed with 
many ... that allowed only one port open to foreign trade across China in the 22nd 
year of ... Qianlong), made the Thirteen Factories (also known as the Thirteen 
Hongs ... trade in China for almost a century, serving as the centre for foreign 
trade as... [DOC] [TLE] Rise & Fall of the Canton Trade System l - MIT OpenCourseWare [PAR] countries, and until the mid 19th century Chinese officials directed by the imperial 
court ... to foreign quarters at Canton (Guangzhou), which remained under the 
tight ... trade and forced them to legalize opium imports, open new ports to trade, 
and agree ... foreign merchants commissioned both Western and Chinese artists 
to. [DOC] [TLE] Shanghai and China's Integration into the World

Question: Also called Guangzhou, for almost a century it was the only Chinese port open to foreign trade
Answer: Canton