Zhuang and Yao ancestors, part of the ancient Baiyue peoples, once populated the entire territory that is now Yunfu, long before Han settlers arrived here in force; today, ethnic minorities make up barely 14,000 of the city's nearly 2.4...
The Qianlong Emperor decreed in 1757 that all Western maritime trade with China would be conducted through a single port, Canton, now Guangzhou; for the next 85 years, one city was, by imperial law, the entirety of China's legal...
