近十年来,随着《天津商会档案汇编》(1903—1950)、《苏州商会档案丛编》(第一辑)等大型商会档案资料的出版,以及以《上海总商会史1902—1929》(徐鼎新、钱小明合著)为代表的一批商会史著作的相继出版,中国商会史研究越来越为中外学者所瞩目,成为中国近代史研究的热点之一,在很大程度上促进了城市史、社会史、现代化史和经济史诸研究领域的进展。如果说在1990年以前,中国商会史的研究尚处于拓荒时期,那么, In the past decade, with the publication of archives of large-scale chamber of commerce such as “Compilation of Archives of Tianjin Chamber of Commerce” (1903-1950), “Series of Records of Suzhou Chamber of Commerce” (Series 1) Xu Dingxin, Qian Xiaoming) as the representative of a series of commercial history books have been published, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce history research more and more for Chinese and foreign scholars have attracted the attention of China’s modern history research, to a large extent promoted Urban history, social history, modern history and economic history research progress. If the study of the history of China’s chambers of commerce was still in its pioneering period before 1990,