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Original source entry:
錢莊 钱庄 [qian2 zhuang1] /old-style money shop (a type of private bank that first appeared in the Ming dynasty, flourished in the Qing, and was phased out after 1949)/(in recent times) informal financial company, often operating at the edges of what is legal/Reference definitions and teaching material have separate provenance.
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