Preliminary Studies on Chinese Financial History

1986年和1987年，山田从事中国古代史的研究，安田从事中国中期史的前期研究，船越从事中国中期史的后期研究，寺田从事中国近代史的研究。我们得到了以下结果。1.山田在以往的研究中证明了“合崩”在前汉前期的出现，发现了汉代对高利贷利率加以限制的事实，并指出当时很可能已经存在“断墨钱”。2.安田曾强烈预期在世纪会采用复利法，他证实，与普遍接受的观点相反，汉代的“五铢钱”是基本货币，其中三分之二是“坚伦钱”。3.船越致力于“十里饼乾之”[SYOKURIHONSEI？，以唐朝国家资金为基础的高利贷。他不仅对前人的研究进行了详细的考察，指出了许多问题，而且收集整理了大量的材料，为我们的研究提供了依据。4.研究“山西商人”各种经济金融活动的寺田，大量利用新收集的实地资料，通过对清代晋商在北京的立足点“会馆”的考察，澄清了晋商的活动，巩固了“山西票号”研究的基础。

In both 1986 and 1987, Yamada worked on ancient period of the Chinese history, Yasuda on the first part of the middle period, Funakoshi on the latter part of the middle period, and Terada on the modern period. We have got the following results. 1. Yamada, who proved the appearance of "He-beng" [GAPPON] in the earlier period of the Former Han [ZENKAN] in his previous studies, found the fact that the fact that the Han Dynasty set limits to interest rates for usury and also pointed out the high probability that there already existed "duan-mo-qian" [TAPAKSEN] at the time. 2. Yasuda, who had a strong anticipation that the compound interest method was adopted in the fourth century, confirmed that contrary to the commonly accepted view, "wu-zhu-qian" [GOSYUSEN] of the Han Dynasty was basic currency, twothirds of which were "jian-lun-qian" [SENRINSEN]. 3. Funakoshi worked on "Shi-li-bing-qian-zhi" [SYOKURIHONSENSEI?, a usury based on the national funds of Tang Dynasty. He not only examined the previous studies in detail, pointing out many problems, but also collected and classified a great deal of materials for the subject, giving us the founda tions of the research. 4. Tereda, who worked on all sorts of economic and financial activities by "Shanxi merchants" [SANSEISYOUNIN], making much of the newly collected materials on the spot, clarified their activities through investigation of "Hui-guan"[KAIKAN], their foothold at Bei-jing in the Qing[SHIN] era, consolidating the foundations of the study of "shanxi-piaohao" [SANSEIHYOUGOU].