Historical Mirror of Modern China · Economic Special Volume: Economic Special Volume

Author: Gu Hongxiao
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Publishing Date: 2000-05-01
Features: This book is one volume of the chronological and period-specific comprehensive history "Comprehensive Mirror to the Late Chinese Empire." It begins with the First Opium War between China and Britain in 1840 and ends with the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, covering over a century. The entire book is organized in chronological order, containing a wealth of detailed historical materials. It includes various aspects such as agriculture, handicrafts, machine industry, commercial trade, transportation and postal services, finance and banking, taxation, salt industry, grain transport, population, and more.