Preface Some Thoughts on the Nature of Money
Acknowledgements
List of Tables, Figures and Maps
List of Contributors
Introduction Control the Uncontrollable: The Endless Trouble with Small Cash
Part 1 Small Currencies: Theory and Comparative Perspective
Chapter 1 Link-Unit-of-Account Versus Ratio-Unit-of-Account Moneys: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Mint Policy
Chapter 2 The Development of Small Early Money in Western Antiquity and Early China
Chapter 3 Fractional Pieces and Non-Metallic Monies in Medieval India (1200–1750)
Chapter 4 The ‘Doit Infestation in Java’: Exchange Rates between Silver and Copper Coins in Netherlands India in the Period 1816–1854
Part 2 Small Currencies in China: Case Studies of Legal, Economic, and Cultural Aspects
Chapter 5 “Silver is Expensive, Cash is Cheap”: Official and Private Cash Forgeries as the Main Cause for the Nineteenth-Century Monetary Turmoil
Chapter 6 The Devastation of the Qing Mints, 1821–1850
Chapter 7 Smoke on the Mountain: The Infamous Counterfeiting Case of Tongzi District, Guizhou Province, 1794
Chapter 8 Japanese and Vietnamese Coins Circulating in China: A Numismatic Approach
Chapter 9 Copper Cash in Chinese Short Stories Compiled by Feng Menglong (1574–1646)
Chapter 10 Cash Crimes: Why Cash Mattered in Mid-Eighteenth Century Petty Crime
Chapter 11 Legal Conflicts Concerning Wage Payments in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China: The Baxian Cases
Chapter 12 Coins Which are Not Money: Cultural Functions and Symbolism
Part 3 Chinese Experiments in Monetary Policy, Military Expenditure, and Grain Transport
Chapter 13 Silver, Copper, Rice, and Debt: Monetary Policy and Office Selling in China during the Taiping Rebellion
Chapter 14 Monetary and Non-Monetary Military Rewards in the Early and High-Qing Period (1673–1795)
Chapter 15 The Fixers: The Role of Zhili Grain Brokers in the 1826 Sea Transport Experiment
Part 4 Metals and Mint Metals in Japan: Glimpses from Trade and Diplomacy
Chapter 16 Import Trade in Precious Metals and the Economy of Japan, 1763–c. 1850
Chapter 17 Copper Transportation in Tokugawa Japan: Its Influence on Copper Shortage in Nagasaki
Chapter 18 A Metal Dealer and Spy from Nagasaki in Manila in the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century
Index
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