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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