清代商业名著《贸易须知》为江苏句容人王秉元所著。王秉元生卒年代不详，仅知他活动于清嘉庆年间，是一位著名的商业理论家和实践家，他在总结大量商业经营活动的基础上，撰写了《贸易须知》。书成后“远近抄写者甚众”，受到热烈欢迎，被大量刊刻翻印，成为当时商业经营的精 Qing Dynasty commercial masterpiece “Trade Notes” for the people in Jiangsu Jurong Wang Bingyuan. Wang Bingyuan’s age of birth unknown, only know him activities in Jiaqing years, is a well-known business theorist and practitioner, he summed up a large number of business activities based on the write “trade notes.” After the book became “far and near copy”, received a warm welcome, was printed a large number of reprinted, became the fine commercial management