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China during the Great Depression : market, state, and the world economy, 1929-1937 / Tomoko Shiroyama.
Lippincott Library HB3717 1929 .S544 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shiroyama, Tomoko, 1965-
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 294.
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 294
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions--1929--China.
- Depressions.
- Financial crises--China.
- Financial crises.
- China--Economic conditions--1912-1949.
- China.
- Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- China on the Silver Standard: Influences of the International Monetary System 3
- Mass Expectations and the Financial Crisis 4
- Market and State and the Monetary System 6
- Linkages Between China and the World Economy: The Two Crises and Beyond 10
- Part I The Years of Inflation and Laissezfaire: Economic Trends Prior to 1931
- 1 The Silver Standard: China in the International
- Monetary System 15
- China's Silver Standard 15
- Silver as a Currency or a Commodity 24
- Banks as Silver Traders: Parity and the Market Exchange Rate 27
- The Price of Silver and Its Impact on China's Money Supply 29
- 2 The Coming of Industrialization: The Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta 37
- The Cotton-Spinning Industry 42
- The Silk-Reeling Industry 51
- 3 Companies in Debt: The Capital Accumulation Problem 60
- Capital Accumulation: The Initial Problem for Entrepreneurs 62
- Searching for Loans and the Terms of Contracts 67
- Debt and the Management of Companies 78
- Part II The Depression Years, 1931-1937: The Transformation of Economics and Politics
- 4 The Agrarian Depression 91
- The Decline in Agricultural Prices 92
- The Terms of Trade for Rural Areas 94
- The Fall of Rural Financial Institutions 103
- The Collapse of Rural Villages: An Urban Problem 111
- 5 Businesses in a Slump 114
- The Silk-Reeling Industry 114
- The Cotton-Spinning Industry 124
- 6 The Shanghai Financial Crisis, 1934-1935 140
- The Illusion of Urban Prosperity: From October 1929 to August 1931 141
- Banks' Delayed Liquidation: From September 1931 to June 1934 148
- The Shanghai Financial Crisis: From June 1934 to November 1935 153
- 7 Coping with the Crisis: The Currency Reform of November 1935 168
- The Diplomatic Background to Currency Reform 170
- The Currency Reform of November 4, 1935 183
- Recovery from the Great Depression 195
- 8 Reaches and Limitations: Economic Policies and the Nationalist Government Reconsidered 200
- The Recovery of the Silk-Reeling Industry 201
- The Recovery of the Cotton-Spinning Industry 207
- The Rehabilitation of Rural Finance 216
- The Silver Standard and Chinese Industrialization 229
- The Political Economy of the Monetary System 231
- The Chinese State and the World Economy 236
- Appendix Estimates of China's International Balance of Payments 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674028319
- 0674028317
- OCLC:
- 159822549
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