晋商故里“金太谷”

Mr. Roby Eunson, an American author of the Soong Sisters, described Shanxi's Taigu as China's Wall Street. In the course of Shanxi Merchants development, the traders of Taigu were the earliest nouveaux riches with the deepest pockets and had been head and shoulders above other traders of the province arguably for several hundreds of years. It was especially in those days after the middle period of the Qing dynasty that Taigu had become the business center of merchants. Their firms and sh…