株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ Empire of Silver : A New Monetary History of China. Tr. by S. Mosher.
商品詳細
Empire of Silver : A New Monetary History of China. Tr. by S. Mosher. 〔英訳〕銀の帝国－中国の新しい貨幣史
・ISBN 978-0-300-25004-6 hard US$ 30.00
￥7,029.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
お気に入り
★★★
| 著者・編者 | Xu, Jin, / Tr. by S. Mosher |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (Yale U. Pr., US) |
| 出版年月 | 2021.04 |
| ページ数 | 384 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜660-P1743 660-P4379＞ |
解説
A thousand-year history of how China's obsession with silver influenced the country's financial well-being, global standing, and political stability
"A wonderful book for understanding one thousand years of Chinese monetary history."--Debin Ma, Hitotsubashi University
This revelatory account of the ways in which silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with "white metal" held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China's economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty during the sixteenth century. However, due to the early adoption of paper money in China, silver was not formed into coins but became a cumbersome "weighing currency," for which ingots had to be constantly examined for weight and purity-an unwieldy practice that lasted for centuries. Jin Xu argues that even as China's interest in silver spurred new avenues of trade and helped increase the country's global economic footprint, in the long run silver played a key role in the struggles and entanglements that led to the decline of the Chinese empire.
"A wonderful book for understanding one thousand years of Chinese monetary history."--Debin Ma, Hitotsubashi University
This revelatory account of the ways in which silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with "white metal" held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China's economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty during the sixteenth century. However, due to the early adoption of paper money in China, silver was not formed into coins but became a cumbersome "weighing currency," for which ingots had to be constantly examined for weight and purity-an unwieldy practice that lasted for centuries. Jin Xu argues that even as China's interest in silver spurred new avenues of trade and helped increase the country's global economic footprint, in the long run silver played a key role in the struggles and entanglements that led to the decline of the Chinese empire.