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Author: Frank H. H. King
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-01-07
Total Pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780521327060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hubert Bonin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1317316924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen European powers annexed parts of Asia, banking systems were an important part of that process. The essays in this edited collection are based on original research using primary sources in English, French, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. The book as a whole provides new insights into banking in imperial Asia and a platform for further research.
Author: Steve Tsang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2007-07-30
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 0857730835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to 'Mother China', the most powerful Communist state in the world.
Author: Hubert Bonin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-14
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1317218914
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sheds new light on the role played by European banks in the economic colonization of much of the globe. Based on previously unused archival material, it examines the origins and development of imperial banking systems. Contributors utilize new developments and methodology in business history to explore a broad range of countries including Cuba, Brazil, Portugal, South Africa and Algeria. The central topic of interest in this book is the institutional history of central, issuing and rediscounting banks. While much attention has been paid to the British, Dutch and French banks and financial instituions, this book is unique in its focus on colonial and overseas banking. Using a range of case studies, this book highlights both the immense variety and cohesion that defined colonial banking practices. This book will be of interest to researchers concerned with international finance and banking and economic history.
Author: Shizuya Nishimura
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-09-27
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0199646325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together leading business and banking historians to examine the role and development of banks in Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries. It discusses both the overseas operations of European banks and the development of Asian (notably Japanese and Hong Kong) banks.
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-02
Total Pages: 10558
ISBN-13: 1136264922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrent interest in the history of money and banking remains strong and it is opportune to survey developments both in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. This set provides historical analysis which incorporates research from the early twentieth century onwards in a form that is both accessible to students of money & banking and economists, economic historians and bankers This set re-issues 38 volumes originally published between 1900 and 2000. It charts the history of early banking, discusses banking in the UK, Europe,Japan and the USA, analyses banks as multinationals, the UK mortgage market, banking policy and structure and examines specific sectors such as gilts and gold.
Author: Kaori Abe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-14
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1134846819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe traditional view of the Hong Kong colonial economy is that it was dominated by Western companies, notably the great British merchant houses, and that these firms enlisted support from Chinese middlemen – the compradors – who were effectively agents working for the Western firms. This book, which presents a comprehensive overview of the compradors and their economic and social functions over the full period of colonial rule in Hong Kong, puts forward a different view. It shows that compradors existed before the beginning of British rule in 1842, discusses their economic and social roles in the colonial economy, roles which included activities for Western firms, for the government and to support compradors’ own commercial activities, and outlines how the comprador system evolved. Overall, the book demonstrates that the compradors played a key role in the formation and development of Hong Kong’s economy and society, that they were active participants, not just passive servants of Western companies.
Author: Austin Dean
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2020-11-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1501752421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 and every transaction became an "encounter of wits." China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 focuses on how officials, policy makers, bankers, merchants, academics, and journalists in China and around the world answered a simple question: how should China change its monetary system? Far from a narrow, technical issue, Chinese monetary reform is a dramatic story full of political revolutions, economic depressions, chance, and contingency. As different governments in China attempted to create a unified monetary standard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the United States, England, and Japan tried to shape the direction of Chinese monetary reform for their own benefit. Austin Dean argues convincingly that the Silver Era in world history ended owing to the interaction of imperial competition in East Asia and the state-building projects of different governments in China. When the Nationalist government of China went off the silver standard in 1935, it marked a key moment not just in Chinese history but in world history.
Author: Debin Ma
Publisher:
Published: 2022-02-24
Total Pages: 867
ISBN-13: 1108425534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from 1800 to the present from an international team of leading experts.
Author: Michael Schiltz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 0198865023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Schiltz analyses the efforts by nineteenth century banking to mitigate the effects of the depreciation of silver. He shows that strategies for hedging exchange rate risk were created earlier than traditionally thought, and explores the relationship between Great-Britain and its colonies in Asia, and the rise of Japan as a financial power.
