Money in Asia (1200 - 1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts (Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900)

__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. Contents Preface Some Thoughts on the Nature of Money Acknowledgements List of Tables, Figures and Maps List of Contributors Introduction Control the Uncontrollable: The Endless Trouble with Small Cash Part 1 Small Currencies: Theory and Comparative Perspective Chapter 1 Link-Unit-of-Account Versus Ratio-Unit-of-Account Moneys: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Mint Policy Chapter 2 The Development of Small Early Money in Western Antiquity and Early China Chapter 3 Fractional Pieces and Non-Metallic Monies in Medieval India (1200–1750) Chapter 4 The ‘Doit Infestation in Java’: Exchange Rates between Silver and Copper Coins in Netherlands India in the Period 1816–1854 Part 2 Small Currencies in China: Case Studies of Legal, Economic, and Cultural Aspects Chapter 5 “Silver is Expensive, Cash is Cheap”: Official and Private Cash Forgeries as the Main Cause for the Nineteenth-Century Monetary Turmoil Chapter 6 The Devastation of the Qing Mints, 1821–1850 Chapter 7 Smoke on the Mountain: The Infamous Counterfeiting Case of Tongzi District, Guizhou Province, 1794 Chapter 8 Japanese and Vietnamese Coins Circulating in China: A Numismatic Approach Chapter 9 Copper Cash in Chinese Short Stories Compiled by Feng Menglong (1574–1646) Chapter 10 Cash Crimes: Why Cash Mattered in Mid-Eighteenth Century Petty Crime Chapter 11 Legal Conflicts Concerning Wage Payments in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China: The Baxian Cases Chapter 12 Coins Which are Not Money: Cultural Functions and Symbolism Part 3 Chinese Experiments in Monetary Policy, Military Expenditure, and Grain Transport Chapter 13 Silver, Copper, Rice, and Debt: Monetary Policy and Office Selling in China during the Taiping Rebellion Chapter 14 Monetary and Non-Monetary Military Rewards in the Early and High-Qing Period (1673–1795) Chapter 15 The Fixers: The Role of Zhili Grain Brokers in the 1826 Sea Transport Experiment Part 4 Metals and Mint Metals in Japan: Glimpses from Trade and Diplomacy Chapter 16 Import Trade in Precious Metals and the Economy of Japan, 1763–c. 1850 Chapter 17 Copper Transportation in Tokugawa Japan: Its Influence on Copper Shortage in Nagasaki Chapter 18 A Metal Dealer and Spy from Nagasaki in Manila in the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century Index 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 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.-- Edited By Jane Kate Leonard And Ulrich Theobald. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. La quatrième de couverture indique: "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."