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lit. wind and clouds in a chamber of commerce (idiom); fig. crisis in the world of business
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Categories: metropolis
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The Wind and Cloud of the Chamber of Commerce is centered around the ups and downs of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce (SGCC). The story begins when the Qing government, in response to the pressure from the British to amend the Xin Chou Treaty according to the terms of the Treaty, set up the Chamber of Commerce on the basis of the integration of Shanghai's merchant guilds. From the very beginning, the Chamber of Commerce became a platform for competition amongst the Shanghai merchant gangs. The two major merchant gangs, the Cantonese and the Ningbo merchants, competed with each other for the dominance of the Chamber of Commerce...