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China’s Foreign Trade

Strategies, Institutions and Legislations

  • Explores the 70-year history of China's foreign trade
  • Figures out the institutional characteristics of a particular historical period
  • Analyzes the process of foreign trade reform with institutional focus
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. A Centralized Management System, 1949–1952

    • Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang
    Pages 1-25
  3. From Centralized Control to Central Planning, 1953–1966

    • Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang
    Pages 27-44
  4. A Growing Number of Trading Partners, 1966–1976

    • Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang
    Pages 45-62
  5. Loosening Control and Diversifying Trade Models, 1976–1978

    • Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang
    Pages 63-83
  6. Initial Steps in Institutional Reform, 1979–1984

    • Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang
    Pages 85-108
  7. The Foreign Trade Contract Responsibility System, 1984–1989

    • Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang
    Pages 109-131
  8. Toward a Market-Driven Foreign Trade System, 1989–1992

    • Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang
    Pages 133-147
  9. Trade Under the WTO, 2001–2008

    • Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang
    Pages 167-185
  10. Increasing Frictions and Adaptation, 2009–2019

    • Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang
    Pages 187-218
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 219-222

About this book

This book is a full review of China's foreign trade in the past 70 years of institutional changes and reform. It presents a magnificent historical overview for China's economic history, sometimes full of trials and hardships, while facing the growth and rise. The author aims to build a unique narrative system to analyze the success and failure, gain and loss during the period, and present the China path in foreign trade among numerous events and different stages under a complex context. It is a must-read book for readers who are interested in China's foreign trade during 1949–2019. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

    Changhong Pei

  • Jiujiang University, Jiangxi, China

    Wanshan Wang

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