China's Foreign Trade [electronic resource] : Strategies, Institutions and Legislations / by Changhong Pei, Wanshan Wang.

Chapter 1. A Centralized Management System, 1949-1952 -- Chapter 2. From Centralized Control to Central Planning, 1953-1966 -- Chapter 3. A Growing Number of Trading Partners, 1966-1976 -- Chapter 4. Loosening Control and Diversifying Trade Models, 1976-1978 -- Chapter 5. Initial Steps in Institutional Reform, 1979-1984 -- Chapter 6. The Foreign Trade Contract Responsibility System, 1984-1989 -- Chapter 7. Toward a Market-driven Foreign Trade System, 1989-1992 -- Chapter 8. Accelerated Market Reform and Final Push Toward WTO Membership, 1992-2001 -- Chapter 9. Trade under the WTO, 2001-2008 -- Chapter 10. Increasing Frictions and Adaptation, 2009-2019.

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. .