Silver and War: a Study of Wartime Financial Operations in the Late Qing Dynasty

The author adheres to a holistic view of history and organically combines the late Qing wartime financial assistance actions with the study of non-financial issues, paying attention to the wartime financial assistance system and its operation in the Xian-Tong and early Guangxu periods, as well as various non-financial issues and various factors outside the system, such as the war process, personal connections, territorial interests, international relations, and the interference of Chinese and foreign media in public opinion. Etc., Various fields influence and restrict each other, follow a macroscopic approach and start with a microscopic approach, accurately grasp the entanglement of fiscal factors and non-fiscal factors, sort out the mutual care between upper and lower-level affiliated institutions, central and provincial levels in the evolution of finance, truthfully describe the intentions, words and deeds of all parties in the event, and truly present the evolution of the fiscal system during the war in the late Qing Dynasty.