Money in Asia (1200 - 1900): small currencies in social and political contexts

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.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Ulrich Theobald -- 1 Link-Unit-of-Account versus Ratio-Unit-of-Account Moneys: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Mint Policy /Dennis O. Flynn -- 2 The Development of Small Early Money in Western Antiquity and Early China /Peter Bernholz -- 3 Fractional Pieces and Non-Metallic Monies in Medieval India (1200–1750) /Najaf Haider -- 4 The 'Doit Infestation in Java': Exchange Rates between Silver and Copper Coins in Netherlands India in the Period 1816–1854 /Willem Wolters -- 5 "Silver is Expensive, Cash is Cheap": Official and Private Cash Forgeries as the Main Cause for the Nineteenth-Century Monetary Turmoil /Werner Burger -- 6 The Devastation of the Qing Mints, 1821–1850 /Man-houng Lin -- 7 Smoke on the Mountain: The Infamous Counterfeiting Case of Tongzi District, Guizhou Province, 1794 /Cao Jin and Hans Ulrich Vogel -- 8 Japanese and Vietnamese Coins Circulating in China: A Numismatic Approach /Werner Burger -- 9 Copper Cash in Chinese Short Stories Compiled by Feng Menglong (1574–1646) /Shan Kunqin -- 10 Cash Crimes: Why Cash Mattered in Mid-Eighteenth Century Petty Crime /Roger Greatrex -- 11 Legal Conflicts Concerning Wage Payments in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China: The Baxian Cases /Christine Moll-Murata -- 12 Coins Which are Not Money: Cultural Functions and Symbolism /Werner Burger -- 13 Silver, Copper, Rice and Debt: Monetary Policy and Office Selling in China during the Taiping Rebellion /Elisabeth Kaske -- 14 Monetary and Non-Monetary Military Rewards in the Early and High-Qing Period (1673–1795) /Ulrich Theobald -- 15 The Fixers: The Role of the Zhili Grain Brokers in the 1826 Sea Transport Experiment /Jane Kate Leonard -- 16 Import Trade in Precious Metals and the Economy of Japan, 1763–c. 1850 /Ryūto Shimada -- 17 Copper Transportation in Tokugawa Japan: Its Influence on Copper Shortage in Nagasaki /Keiko Nagase-Reimer -- 18 A Metal Dealer and Spy from Nagasaki in Manila in the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century /Reinier H. Hesselink -- Index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Ulrich Theobald -- 1 Link-Unit-of-Account versus Ratio-Unit-of-Account Moneys: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Mint Policy /Dennis O. Flynn -- 2 The Development of Small Early Money in Western Antiquity and Early China /Peter Bernholz -- 3 Fractional Pieces and Non-Metallic Monies in Medieval India (1200–1750) /Najaf Haider -- 4 The 'Doit Infestation in Java': Exchange Rates between Silver and Copper Coins in Netherlands India in the Period 1816–1854 /Willem Wolters -- 5 "Silver is Expensive, Cash is Cheap": Official and Private Cash Forgeries as the Main Cause for the Nineteenth-Century Monetary Turmoil /Werner Burger -- 6 The Devastation of the Qing Mints, 1821–1850 /Man-houng Lin -- 7 Smoke on the Mountain: The Infamous Counterfeiting Case of Tongzi District, Guizhou Province, 1794 /Cao Jin and Hans Ulrich Vogel -- 8 Japanese and Vietnamese Coins Circulating in China: A Numismatic Approach /Werner Burger -- 9 Copper Cash in Chinese Short Stories Compiled by Feng Menglong (1574–1646) /Shan Kunqin -- 10 Cash Crimes: Why Cash Mattered in Mid-Eighteenth Century Petty Crime /Roger Greatrex -- 11 Legal Conflicts Concerning Wage Payments in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China: The Baxian Cases /Christine Moll-Murata -- 12 Coins Which are Not Money: Cultural Functions and Symbolism /Werner Burger -- 13 Silver, Copper, Rice and Debt: Monetary Policy and Office Selling in China during the Taiping Rebellion /Elisabeth Kaske -- 14 Monetary and Non-Monetary Military Rewards in the Early and High-Qing Period (1673–1795) /Ulrich Theobald -- 15 The Fixers: The Role of the Zhili Grain Brokers in the 1826 Sea Transport Experiment /Jane Kate Leonard -- 16 Import Trade in Precious Metals and the Economy of Japan, 1763–c. 1850 /Ryūto Shimada -- 17 Copper Transportation in Tokugawa Japan: Its Influence on Copper Shortage in Nagasaki /Keiko Nagase-Reimer -- 18 A Metal Dealer and Spy from Nagasaki in Manila in the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century /Reinier H. Hesselink -- 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