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“Many a Long Day”: HSBC and Its Note Issue in Republican China, 1912–1935

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Abstract

This article utilizes the local banknote circulation volumes of HSBC, the largest foreign bank in China, as a gauge with which to explore political stability and state-building during the Republican era (1912–1935). It will challenge the prevailing view that British banks faced little resistance in China through the 1920s–1930s, and expose new archival evidence on the perception of, and mobilization against, foreign banks.

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Helleiner, E. “National Currencies and National Identities.The American Behavioral Scientist 41 (1998): 1409–36.Google Scholar
Horesh, N. “The Hongkong Bank and its Early note issue in Shanghai, 1865–1911.Late Imperial China 27 (2006): 109–40.Google Scholar
Horesh, N. “Between Legal and Illegal Tender: the Chartered Bank’s note Circulation in and Around China, 1864–1939.Modern China (forthcoming 2008).Google Scholar
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Lin, A. “Building and Funding a Warlord Regime: The Experience of Chen Jitang in Guangdong.Modern China 28 (2002): 177212.Google Scholar
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Meissner, D. “The Business of Survival: Competition and Cooperation in the Shanghai Flour Milling Industry.Enterprise and Society 6 (2005): 364–94.Google Scholar
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Rajan, G.R., and Zingales, L.. “The Great Reversals: the Politics of Financial Development in the Twentieth Century.Journal of Financial Economics 69 (2003): 550.Google Scholar
Rawski, T. “Milton Friedman, Silver, and China.Journal of Political Economy 101 (1993): 755–8.Google Scholar
Schuler, K. “The World History of Free Banking: an Overview.” In The Experience ofFree Banking, ed. Dowd, K.. London, 1992, pp. 747.Google Scholar
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Sheehan, B. “The History of Chinese Money and Banking: A Mini Explosion.Chinese Business History 14 (2004): 12, 10.Google Scholar
Sheehan, B. “Myth and Reality in Chinese Financial Cliques in 1936.Enterprise and Society 6 (2005): 452–49.Google Scholar
Van der Ven, H. “Public Finance and the Rise of Warlordism.Modern Asian Studies 30 (1996): 831–5.Google Scholar
Yasutomi, Ayumu. Honkon Shanhai ginkō no shikin kōzō, 1913–1941 nen [The Capital Structure of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 1912–1941]. Ajia keizai 44.10 (2003): 2753.Google Scholar
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Dongfang zazhi 9 (1912), 15 (1918) [Chinese language magazine].Google Scholar
Financial Times Google Scholar
Gongshang banyuekan [Chinese language magazine]Google Scholar
North China Herald Google Scholar
Rexue Ribao [Chinese language daily].Google Scholar
South China Morning Post Google Scholar
Yanyong, 1 (1913) [Chinese language magazine].Google Scholar
Yinhang zhoubao, 11 (1927) [Chinese banking magazine].Google Scholar
Bonin, H. “Les banquiers franÇais en Chine (1860–1950): Shanghai et Hong Kong, relais d’un imperialisme bancaire ou plates-formes d’outre-mers multiformes?” Unpublished Paper, 2002.Google Scholar
Paauw, D., Chinese Public Finance During the Nanking Government Period, PhD. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1950.Google Scholar
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Group Archives, London.Google Scholar
United Kingdom National Archives, Kew.Google Scholar