Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The superintendent of customs at Canton, China: so called by foreigners.
Wiktionary
- n. China A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.
- n. China A tribunal or commission in charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. China, China A collector of customs, as at Canton; an overseer of commerce.
- n. China A tribunal or commission having charge of the revenue derived from trade and navigation.
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“Canton Customs, and when Shanghai was declared an open port in forty-two they made him hoppo there.”
“On the 12th the officers went ashore to wait upon the hoppo, who had a fine palace.”
“The Chinese are justly reputed the craftiest people in the world; and it is their invariable maxim to appoint the cunningest man they can find to the office of hoppo.”
“The custom of this port is to disarm every ship that enters it, sending two frigates or armed vessels, called _chan-pans_, full of men, to ride close by the vessel, to ensure the execution of all orders from the _hoppo_ and chief mandarin.”
“The Portuguese have indeed the government over their own people within the walls of this city; yet Macao is strictly and properly a Chinese city: For there is a Chinese governor resident on the spot, together with a hoppo or commissioner of the customs; and these Chinese mandarins, with all their officers and servants, are maintained at the expence of the city, which has also to bear the charges of the Portuguese government. [”
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