摘要
明代的白银货币化是中国传统社会后期的重大变革性事件,而亲历这一历史进程的中国知识精英却呈现出对于白银货币的批判性倾向,主张“贱银”甚至“废银”的思潮几乎成为明清之际货币改革思想的共识。白银在晚明成为社会主要货币和财税结算形式的制度性根源在于明朝官方货币政策的全面失败以致货币主权的丧失,而白银以非法定铸币的银两形式存在并运行则彻底激化了明朝财税体系的结构性矛盾。“废银”主张正是这一时代为整顿重建国家货币财政制度体系而浮现的侧影,以对治货币主权丧失的症结,保障国家财政金融安全。明清之际的“废银”思潮是该时期的思想家为倡导经世致用之学而在制度论的思维框架下,应对近代早期国家社会财富金融化与重建制度文明的重要探索,其中蕴藏的精神遗产对当代亦有启迪。
The monetization of silver during the Ming Dynasty constituted a major transformative event in the later period of traditional Chinese society.Yet,the Chinese intellectual elite who witnessed this historical process advocated for“devaluing silver”or even“abolishing silver”.These propositions became the consensus within the discourse on currency reform during the Ming-Qing transition.The institutional roots of silver’s rise as the dominant medium of exchange and the primary form of fiscal settlement in the late Ming lay in the comprehensive failure of the dynasty’s official monetary policies,which resulted in the loss of monetary sovereignty.Furthermore,the fact that silver circulated and functioned in the form of non-state-minted silver sycee exacerbated to the structural contradictions inherent within the Ming fiscal and taxation system.The advocacy for“abolishing silver”manifested as a facet of this era’s broader efforts to reorganize and rebuild the state’s monetary and fiscal institutional framework.It aimed to address the core issue of lost monetary sovereignty and safeguard the security of state finances.The“abolishing silver”thought during the Ming-Qing transition represented an important exploration by thinkers of the time.Operating within the conceptual framework of institutional theory and championing the pragmatic learning of statecraft,they sought to respond to the financialization of national and social wealth in the early modern period and to rebuild institutional civilization.
出处
《中山大学学报(社会科学版)》
北大核心
2025年第5期198-206,共9页
Journal of Sun Yat-sen University(Social Science Edition)
关键词
白银货币
废银论
货币主权
财税体制
monetization of silver
the“Abolishing Silver”thought
monetary sovereignty
fiscal and taxation system
