摘要
多灾多难的晚清中国,在诸多"显灾"之外,复有一大"隐灾"——银灾。巨额外债、银价下跌、世界金本位制潮流,三个因素合在一起,造成了以银钱还金债的中国"竭一国之岁入,乃仅供纳息之数"的危机。清末朝野人士因之发起了一场延宕二十年的,以弃银就金为主旨的货币本位制改革的大讨论。这场讨论既是一场改革图存运动,也是一场货币知识的学习运动。
The Late Qing Dynasty suffered a bad time in terms of its monetary system. In addition to its numerous'overt troubles',there was one big'covert trouble',which may be called a silver disaster. Huge amounts of foreign debt,the continuous decreasing silver price,and the most Western countries adopting the gold standard monetary system,these three factors joined together to plunge China,who was repaying its gold debt with silver money,into the embarrassing crisis that the country's entire annual fiscal revenue could only cover the interest of its international debt. Qing government and its intellectual circle therefore started a twenty-yearlong discussion over the monetary standard reform focusing on the possibility of shifting the silver standard to the gold standard. This discussion was not only important to China's systematic reform and political survival,but also significant for Chinese people,especially for its intellectuals,to learn some knowledge about money,currency,foreign exchange,etc.
出处
《开放时代》
CSSCI
北大核心
2017年第1期97-110,共14页
Open Times
基金
澳门理工学院研究资助项目"郑观应财经思想研究"(项目编号:RP/OTHER-02/2014)的阶段性成果
关键词
金本位制
白银
银价
晚清
币制
gold standard
silver standard
silver price
late Qing Dynasty
monetary system
