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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
hong
the guild of Chinese merchants authorized by the central government to trade with Western merchants at Guangzhou (Canton) prior to the first Opium War (1839-42). Such firms often were called "foreign-trade firms" (yanghang) and the merchants who directed them "hong merchants" (hangshang).
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