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East Asia

From the Dojima Rice Exchange — the world's first futures market — to modern Shanghai, East Asian exchanges reveal a deep history of financial innovation.

21 exchanges
Exchange City Country Established Style
Linzi Commercial Quarter (State of Qi) Linzi China c. 700 BCE Ancient Chinese walled city with riverside commercial district
Dunhuang Monastery Pawnshops Dunhuang China c. 5th century CE Buddhist monastic lending complex
Chang’an West Market (Guifang Counting Houses) Chang’an (Xi’an) China c. 618 CE Tang Dynasty walled commercial complex
Song Dynasty Kaifeng Market District Kaifeng China c. 960 CE Song Dynasty open commercial city
Thirteen Factories of Canton (廣州十三行) Guangzhou (Canton) China c. 1684 (rose to monopoly under the Canton System, 1757–1842) Sino-Western: Chinese hang plan with applied European Neoclassical façades (columns, arcades, pediments)
Dojima Rice Exchange Osaka Japan 1697 Traditional Japanese
Shanghai Stock Exchange Shanghai China 1866 Western influences
Tokyo Stock Exchange (Historical) Tokyo Japan 1878 Art Deco / Western Modernist (1931 building)
Osaka Securities Exchange Building (Osaka Exchange) Osaka Japan 1878 Early Japanese Modernism with Art Deco detailing
Nagoya Stock Exchange (名古屋証券取引所) Nagoya Japan 1886 Contemporary commercial / modern office architecture
Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) Hong Kong China 1891 Colonial, Modern
Qingdao Exchange Building Qingdao China 1920s Western Neoclassical
Tianjin Stock Exchange Tianjin China 1921 Neoclassical / Beaux-Arts (concession-era financial district)
Korea Exchange (KRX) (한국거래소) Seoul South Korea 1956 Modern
Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) Taipei Taiwan 1961 Modern
Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Bangkok Thailand 1975 Contemporary Modernist
Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) Tokyo Japan 1984 Modern
Mongolian Stock Exchange (MSE) Ulaanbaatar Mongolia 1991 Soviet Neoclassical
Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) Dalian China 1993 Modern
Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) Shanghai China 1999 Modern
Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx) Hong Kong China 2011 Modern