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powers had a consulate, a place where major western and japanese trading firms, and international textile and engineering companies, had factories and sales offices. it was a regular overseas posting for customs officers, steamboat captains, traders and consuls. wuhan was also a cradle of china's revolution
and, as a trading hub for teas and silks among other commodities, it directly impacted the lives of people in the west -- it made the tea in their teapots, the powdered egg in their birthday cakes, the silk for their pajamas. after the chaos and destruction of the second world war, the communist revolution...
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/22/asia/wuhan-history-hnk-intl/index.html