Foreign Trade prior to the Han Dynasty

Yuqin Sun, Xu Chang, Rui Su and Robin Gilbank

Chapter 1 in A General History of China's Foreign Trade:Volume 1, 2024, pp 1-8 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Over the years, production within human society has grown to be bifurcated into two parts, namely agriculture and manufacturing. There then emerged a situation whereby production was undertaken with the purpose of exchange. That is to say the first stage was commodity production, followed by trade within tribes, then trade along tribal boundaries, and finally trade overseas. It can therefore be concluded that foreign trade, as a social and economic activity, has been in existence since late primitive society…

Keywords: China; China's Foreign Trade; Chinese History (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B1 B17 F1 N00 N75 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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