page_title: Howqua
hierarchical_section_title: Howqua
caption_attribution_description: English: Howqua. 中文: 伍秉鉴画像
context_page_description: Wu Bingjian, trading as "Houqua" and better known in the West as "Howqua", was the most important of the hong merchants in the Thirteen Factories, head of the E-wo hong and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was once the richest man in the world.
context_section_description: Wu Bingjian (Chinese: 伍秉鑑)(1769 – 4 September 1843), trading as "Houqua" and better known in the West as "Howqua", was the most important of the hong merchants in the Thirteen Factories, head of the E-wo hong and leader of the Canton Cohong. He was once the richest man in the world.
caption: Portrait by Lam Qua
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