简介:
The Great Depression was a global phenomenon: every economy linked to international financial and commodity markets suffered. The aim of this book is not merely to show that China could not escape the consequences of drastic declines in financial flows and trade but also to offer a new perspective for understanding modern Chinese history. The Great Depression was a watershed in modern China. China was the only country on the silver standard in an international monetary system dominated by the gold standard.
Fluctuations in international silver prices undermined China's monetary system and destabilized its economy. In response to severe deflation, the state shifted its position toward the market from laissez faire to committed intervention. Establishing a new monetary system, with a different foreign-exchange standard, required deliberate government management; ultimately the process of economic recovery and monetary change politicized the entire Chinese economy. By analyzing the impact of the slump and the process of recovery, this book examines the transformation of state-market relations in light of the linkages between the Chinese and the world economy.
书评:
This is the first readily accessible, comprehensive account of the impact of the 20th century's most serious economic crisis on Republican China, whose experience of the global downturn took a very singular path.
--R. P. Gardella (Choice )
作者简介:
Tomoko Shiroyama is Associate Professor of Economic History in the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.
ISBN-10:0674028317
ISBN-13: 978-0674028319
书名: China during the Great Depression
副书名:Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937
丛书名:Harvard East Asian Monographs.
作者:Tomoko Shiroyama
出版社:Harvard University Asia Center
装帧:Hardcover
币值:USD
价格:45
页数:350
出版日期:March 1, 2008
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