China and the end of global silver, 1873-1937 / Austin Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Austin, 1984- author.

Series:

Cornell studies in money.

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell studies in money

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--China--History--19th century.

Money.

Money--China--History--20th century.

Monetary policy--China--History--19th century.

Monetary policy.

Monetary policy--China--History--20th century.

Currency question--China--History--19th century.

Currency question.

Currency question--China--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no unified national currency; there was not one monetary standard but many. Silver coins circulated alongside chunks of silver and every transaction became an 'encounter of wits.' This book focuses on how officials, policy makers, bankers, merchants, academics, and journalists in China and around the world answered a simple question: how should China change its monetary system? Far from a narrow, technical issue, Chinese monetary reform is a dramatic story full of political revolutions, economic depressions, chance, and contingency.

Contents:

Introduction : Following the Money

A Primer on the Qing Dynasty Monetary System

Silver Begins Its Fall : The Global Circulations of the U.S. Trade Dollar, 1873-1887

Provincial Silver Coins and the Fragmenting Chinese Monetary System, 1887-1900

The Gold-Exchange Standard and Imperial Competition in China, 1901-1905

Money and Power on the World's Last "Silver Frontier" : The Currency Reform and Development Loan, 1910-1924

The Shanghai Mint and Establishing a Silver Standard in China, 1920-1933

The Fabi and the End of the Global Silver Era, 1933-1937.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed on June 10, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

9781501752407

1501752405

OCLC:

1137180112