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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457121103321

Autore

Horesh Niv

Titolo

Shanghai's bund and beyond [[electronic resource] ] : British banks, banknote issuance, and monetary policy in China, 1842-1937 / / Niv Horesh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT ; ; London, : Yale University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-35332-2

9786612353321

0-300-14362-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 240 p.) ) : ill

Collana

Yale series in economic and financial history

Disciplina

330.951035

Soggetti

Banks and banking, British - China - History - 19th century

Banks and banking, British - China - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

China Economic conditions 1644-1912

China Economic conditions 1912-1949

China Economic policy 1644-1912

China Economic policy 1912-1949

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Sino- Foreign Financial Grid in Prewar Shanghai -- Chapter 3 The Chartered Bank and Its Note Issue -- Chapter 4 HSBC and Its Note Issue in Shanghai, 1866-1925 -- Chapter 5 HSBC and Its China Note Issue in the Late- Republican Era, 1925-1937 -- Chapter 6 Conclusions -- Appendix: British Bank Note Circulation in Shanghai, 1881-1935 -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

As China emerges as a global powerhouse, this timely book examines its economic past and the shaping of its financial institutions. The first comparative study of foreign banking in prewar China, the book surveys the impact of British overseas bank notes on China's economy before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Focusing on the



two leading British banks in the region, it assesses the favorable and unfavorable effects of the British presence in China, with particular emphasis on Shanghai, and traces instructive links between the changing political climate and banknote circulation volumes.Drawing on recently declassified archival materials, Niv Horesh revises previous assumptions about China's prewar economy, including the extent of foreign banknote circulation and the economic significance of the May Thirtieth Movement of 1925.