China Customs and Foreign Trade (Nanqiang Historical Series)

Author: Lian Xinhao
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The author is a professor at the Department of History, Xiamen University. He believes that as an administrative institution for managing foreign trade, the customs has, to a significant extent, become an objective indicator of opening-up. Therefore, it serves as a new and important starting point for historical research. The author focuses on the modern history of Chinese customs. His research examines the establishment of customs and the opening-up of the country, the origins, inheritance, and development of the Chinese customs, explores the patterns of customs establishment throughout history, and summarizes the successes and failures of China's opening-up in history. Faced with modern Chinese society, he combines foreign trade and foreign relations, focusing on politics and economy, academia and current situations. He pays particular attention to smuggling and customs anti-smuggling issues. In this field, he has made pioneering breakthroughs and has collected and organized a substantial amount of relatively obscure customs history materials. Since the 1980s, in the wave of reform and opening-up, our department, guided by the philosophy of mutual promotion between teaching and research, has inherited and developed traditional research characteristics while continuously expanding new research fields, leading to a series of new disciplinary growth points. Our research publications have been highly acclaimed by scholars and educators in academia and the education sector.