Bai yin di guo
This book examines this period of history, from the monetization of silver to the silver standard, from the failure of paper currency to China's dependence on silver, from China's participation in the creation of the world market to its control of the Western economic system, and sorts out how silver has become a The difficult journey of the standard currency. In addition, the author focuses more on China's paper currency experiments that began hundreds of years before the West, as well as China's persistence in silver under the global gold standard, and explores the impact of the Great Divergence between China and the West and China's silver standard on future generations. Therefore, this book is a popular economic history work that combs the history of China's currency from a new perspective of thinking about the rise, development and decline of silver.
本书正是通过对这一段历史的考察, 从白银货币化到银本位, 从纸币的失败到中国对白银的依赖, 从中国参与创建世界市场到受制于西方经济体系等角度, 梳理了白银成为本位货币的艰难历程。此外, 作者将更多目光投向了中国早于西方几百年开始的纸币试验, 以及中国在全球金本位大势之下对白银的固守, 探讨中西大分流和中国银本位对后世带来的影响。因此, 本书是一部从白银的兴起、发展和衰落等新的思考角度, 梳理中国货币史的通俗经济史作品。 |
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