Meaning of Huai-pei | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Next, at the provincial distributing centers such as Ta-t'ung, Shasi, and Hankow were the important brokers (hang-shang, lit., "guild merchants") or salt hongs, who purhcased the salt for resale, or arranged its resale, to the provincial distributors, who themselves went by a variety of names: in Hupei, p'u-fan (lit., "store merchants") for the urban areas and shui-fan (lit., "water merchants") for the backcountry; in Huai-pei, hu-shang (lit., "lake merchants"); in Szechwan an-shang (lit., "port merchants"). These in turn⟳ sold to the public, either through their own⟳ shops or through petty retailers and peddlers.”

“During the nineteenth century, parts of Shantung and Honan provinces and much of Anhwei were ravaged by the Nien bandits from Huai-pei.”

“In the first half of the nineteenth century, Hudson and den Boer write⟳, the Huai-pei region of northeast China had a series of natural disasters.”

“The Nien originally formed during 1851 in the Huai-pei region, as it was known at the time.”

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