Financial Setup on Instagram: "People love naming Western elites — but the East built power centuries earlier. While Europe fought wars, Chinese merchant dynasties were mastering compound wealth, credit systems, and trade monopolies across Asia. Families like the Li, Hui, Kwok, Pao, and Kadoorie clans built influence not with politics, but with ports, shipping lanes, and capital flow. Today, their fingerprints still sit on banking hubs from Hong Kong to Singapore. Money doesn’t disappear — it tr