Author(s)

Qionglin Liu, Siyi Chen

Corresponding Author

Qionglin Liu

Abstract

American Foreign Firms play a second important role in China's modern Foreign economy. It’s architectural heritage culture occupies an important part of Canton's business culture. Against the backdrop of the great importance of culture in building Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, this paper analyses how the architecture of American firms evolve in layout, style, material and structure, aiming to discuss the culture value of architecture of American firms and provide advice for value assessment and protection of commercial and trade architectures in GBA.

Keywords

Canton; the Thirteen Factories; Russell & Co; Anderson; Meyers & Co Ltd