Piaohao (Traditional Chinese: 票號, literally 'draft banks'), also known as piaozhuang (票莊), huihao (匯號), or huiduizhuang (匯兌莊), in Mandarin Chinese, or...

Sichuan. The two major types of indigenous Chinese financial institutions, piàohào (票號) and qiánzhuāng (錢莊), more often cooperated than competed in China's...

banking institutions are piaohao and qianzhuang. The first nationwide private financial system, so-called "draft banks" or piaohao (simplified Chinese: 票号;...

merchants also operated an early Chinese type of draft bank known as the piaohao; these were the dominant form of banks in China until the fall of the Qing...

networks headquartered in Shanxi province called the "Shanxi banks" (票號, piaohao). Also known by a variety of regional names, such as qiansi (錢肆), qianpu...

The Rishengchang Piaohao (simplified Chinese: 日升昌票号; traditional Chinese: 日升昌票號; pinyin: Rì shēng chāng piào hào), was the first draft bank in China....

During the late Qing dynasty, a new development occurred: the creation of piaohao (票號), which were essentially banks that provided services like money transfers...

draft banks, or Piaohao, boosted the central Shanxi basin to become the financial center of Qing China. Even though most of these Piaohao were based in...

international trade of tea to Russia and the development of draft banks, or "Piaohao", which secured Shanxi as the financial center in the Qing dynasty. Pingyao...

activity that would ultimately need banks, these banks would become the piaohao. An imperial government salt monopoly persisted, with only a few minor...