The Silver Thread: the World and China in the 19th Century
by Lin Manhong
About This Novel
By analyzing the supply and demand of silver in the world in the first half of the 19th century, that is, during the Jia, Dao, and Xian dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, this paper analyzes how China's currency system, which used both money and money, was involved in the world economy, thus causing China to be organically eroded by the world. The author analyzes the role of opium and silver in the balance of payments from the clues of international trade; analyzes the social disorder caused by the currency system and the social unrest within China caused by insufficient government tax revenue from the use of silver and currency; discusses the ideological debates caused by economic phenomena from the perspective of intellectual history, and analyzes the views of the main schools of economic thought during this period and its comparison with Western thought of the same period. Finally, the author extends the ideological debate caused by economic development to the discussion of world outlook and system, and analyzes the relationship between China and the world in the 19th century from the different levels of external, internal, and internal and external integration. This kind of research that integrates multiple disciplines and perspectives is rare.
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