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Zhou Lin , Shanglü anfou: Qingdai Chongqing de shangyezhidu : (Convenient or Restrictive: The Commercial System of Chongqing in the Qing Dynasty): Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2021, 457 pp., RMB 158 (paperback), ISBN: 978-7-5201-8604-9 The main finding of the book argues that the Chongqing market during the Qing dynasty was a "government-dominated rational market" (p. 299) and that the fundamental idea behind it was to "harness merchants by tribute and likin" (p. 364). However, Guanya was no longer a collaborator with the government after 1905, when the provincial government took control of the likin collection and became the target of government extortion. [Extracted from the article]