This book is a complete, systematic, and three-dimensional monographic general history book, which shows the activities and laws of the Chinese market from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Republic of China. It makes a comprehensive summary of the development and evolution of the Chinese market in the past 2500 years for the first time.
This book is the final achievement of the key project of the National Social Science Fund "Research on the long-term development of China's urban and rural market" (No. 05AJL004), led by Wu Chengming of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It brings together experts and scholars such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Yunnan University, and East China Normal University. This book discusses the relationship between long-term market changes and economic fluctuations in China's history, also helps promote research on China's economy's immediate, medium, and long-term development. In addition, it provides an essential basis for further unique research on economic history such as China's urban development History, China's regional economic History, China's financial History, and China's fiscal and tax History.