Huqing Yutang Chin. Medicine Msm.
Qing-dynasty pharmacy hall and camphor-wood counters behind an honesty plaque written by its own bankrupted founder.
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This guide to Huqing Yutang in Hangzhou opens inside a pharmacy hall built in 1878 by Hu Xueyan, founded four years earlier on a promise carved above the staff counter that nothing sold here would ever cheat a customer. It follows how Hu turned the pharmacy into one of the most trusted names in Chinese medicine while building a separate life as a banker and financier to the Qing government, including a bid to corner the national silk market. The counter's original camphor wood still stands, worn smooth by more than a century of hands reaching for medicine.
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