China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 / / Austin Dean.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Dean, Austin,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Money
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 5 b&w halftones

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 an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Terms, Currencies, Weights, and Measures
• Introduction: Following the Money
• 1. A Primer on the Qing Dynasty Monetary System
• 2. Silver Begins Its Fall
• 3. Provincial Silver Coins and the Fragmenting Chinese Monetary System, 1887–1900
• 4. The Gold-Exchange Standard and Imperial Competition in China, 1901–1905
• 5. Money and Power on the World’s Last “Silver Frontier”
• 6. The Shanghai Mint and Establishing a Silver Standard in China, 1920–1933
• 7. The Fabi and the End of the Global Silver Era, 1933–1937
• Conclusion: Reflections on the End of Global Silver
• Appendix: Price of Bar Silver in London, 1833–1933
• Chinese and Japanese Character List
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index