商会档案文献是中国近代商会在日常的经济和社会活动中直接产生的历史记录。中国近代商会是清末民初之际由政府倡导、商人自愿组织而成的新型工商业社会团体,是特殊历史时期中西文化冲撞与融合的产物。 Chamber archives are the historical records of the modern Chinese chambers of commerce in their daily economic and social activities. The Chamber of Commerce in China was a new type of industrial and commercial social group advocated by the government and voluntarily organized by businessmen at the turn of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. It is the product of the collision and integration of Chinese and Western cultures in the special historical period.