Money in Asia (1200-1900) : small currencies in social and political contexts / edited by Jane Kate Leonard and Ulrich Theobald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leonard, Jane Kate, 1939- editor.

Theobald, Ulrich, editor.

Series:

Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; v. 6.

Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, 2210-2876 ; volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--Asia--History.

Money.

Monetary policy--Asia--History.

Monetary policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (572 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Money in Asia examines two chronic problems that faced early modern monetary economies in East, South, and Southeast Asia: The inability to provide sufficient amounts of small currencies to facilitate local economic transactions and to control currency depreciation. The studies in this volume analyze the social and economic consequences of small currency scarcity and devaluation on various Asian economies and show how various regimes tried to manage these ever-present challenges. They reveal that those regimes that dealt most successfully with these two issues were those with an integrated national approach to monetary policy. Contributors are: Peter Bernholz, Werner Burger, Cao Jin, Mark Elvin, Dennis O. Flynn, Roger Greatrex, Najaf Haider, Reinier H. Hesselink, Elisabeth Kaske, Man-houng Lin, Jane Kate Leonard, Christine Moll-Murata, Keiko Nagase-Reimer, Shan Kunqin, Shimada Ryūto, Ulrich Theobald, Hans Ulrich Vogel, and Willem Wolters

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Ulrich Theobald

1 Link-Unit-of-Account versus Ratio-Unit-of-Account Moneys: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Mint Policy / Dennis O. Flynn

2 The Development of Small Early Money in Western Antiquity and Early China / Peter Bernholz

3 Fractional Pieces and Non-Metallic Monies in Medieval India (1200–1750) / Najaf Haider

4 The ‘Doit Infestation in Java’: Exchange Rates between Silver and Copper Coins in Netherlands India in the Period 1816–1854 / Willem Wolters

5 “Silver is Expensive, Cash is Cheap”: Official and Private Cash Forgeries as the Main Cause for the Nineteenth-Century Monetary Turmoil / Werner Burger

6 The Devastation of the Qing Mints, 1821–1850 / Man-houng Lin

7 Smoke on the Mountain: The Infamous Counterfeiting Case of Tongzi District, Guizhou Province, 1794 / Cao Jin and Hans Ulrich Vogel

8 Japanese and Vietnamese Coins Circulating in China: A Numismatic Approach / Werner Burger

9 Copper Cash in Chinese Short Stories Compiled by Feng Menglong (1574–1646) / Shan Kunqin

10 Cash Crimes: Why Cash Mattered in Mid-Eighteenth Century Petty Crime / Roger Greatrex

11 Legal Conflicts Concerning Wage Payments in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China: The Baxian Cases / Christine Moll-Murata

12 Coins Which are Not Money: Cultural Functions and Symbolism / Werner Burger

13 Silver, Copper, Rice and Debt: Monetary Policy and Office Selling in China during the Taiping Rebellion / Elisabeth Kaske

14 Monetary and Non-Monetary Military Rewards in the Early and High-Qing Period (1673–1795) / Ulrich Theobald

15 The Fixers: The Role of the Zhili Grain Brokers in the 1826 Sea Transport Experiment / Jane Kate Leonard

16 Import Trade in Precious Metals and the Economy of Japan, 1763–c. 1850 / Ryūto Shimada

17 Copper Transportation in Tokugawa Japan: Its Influence on Copper Shortage in Nagasaki / Keiko Nagase-Reimer

18 A Metal Dealer and Spy from Nagasaki in Manila in the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century / Reinier H. Hesselink

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28835-X

OCLC:

896806828

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004288355 DOI