Qing Coinage, 1850 to 1911: Mint Statistics, Numismatic Evidence, and Monetary Policy

硬币可以提供一面令人惊讶的真实的镜子，反映历史上一个国家的经济健康状况。对于已故帝王中国的货币化经济来说，情况尤其如此。在中国与东亚的货币、市场与金融课题组的研究范围内，本项目将对清代钱币进行详尽的分析。这项建立在货币和文献证据基础上的研究之所以成为可能，是因为它将使用世界上最完整的清代钱币收藏，由Werner Burger持有，以及他同样全面的清朝所有造币厂的常规行政文件收集。货币分析将导致这一有形来源对S时期货币金融史的深远影响。根据对硬币本身的仔细比较审查和从档案文件中获得的信息，将编制按年份和铸币局安排的铸币局统计数据。这些数据将提供几乎不间断的数据序列，构成一套准确的清朝货币和经济数据。他们的分析将对讨论期间的经济和政治变化和事态发展的现实提供新的见解。

Coins can provide an astonishingly truthful mirror of a country¿s economic health through history. This is particularly true for the monetarised economy of late imperial China. Within the scope of the proposed research group ¿Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia,¿ this project will undertake an exhaustive analysis of Qing dynasty coins and coinage. This research on the basis of numismatic and documentary evidence has become possible because it will use the most complete collection of Qing coins worldwide, held by Werner Burger, and his equally comprehensive collection of routine administrative documents on all mints of the Qing Empire. The numismatic analysis will lead on to far-reaching implications provided by this tangible source for the period¿s monetary and financial history. Based on the close comparative scrutiny of the coins themselves and on information obtained from archival documents, mint statistics arranged by year and by mint will be compiled. These will offer almost unbroken data sequences, constituting a set of precise monetary and economic data for the Qing dynasty. Their analysis will provide new insights into the realities of economic and political changes and developments in the period under discussion.