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Monnaie, crédit, finances en Chine de 1840 à 1937

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  • Jean-Marie Thiveaud

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[eng] Money, credit and financial issues in China from 1840 to 1937 . The issues related to money, finance, credit and banks in China's history deserve to be examined in the context of current Asian crises. China's position in these different mechanisms is quite original, given that international historians and economists are willing to consider this country as the cradle of money, both coins and notes, in old times, before those years when western currency developments took place. Public financial issues are, on the contrary, very different because they do not really appear in the state model before the XIXth Century. Finally, foreign exchange remained almost absent from the Chinese system until the beginning of the XXth Century. But, the main aspects of Chinese financial and money model descriptions in this article deal particularly with very sensitive evolutions between 1840 and 1937, including foreign interventions, monetary and banking reforms and economic reconstruction projects. The sequence of political regimes in this period has significantly modified, generally in a positive way, the financial system organisation in China until the Sino-Japanese war of 1937. [fre] Les questions de la monnaie, des finances, du crédit et des banques dans l'histoire de la Chine méritent d'être examinées dans le contexte des crises asiatiques actuelles. La position de la Chine dans ces différents mécanismes est assez originale dans la mesure où, d'une part, les historiens et économistes internationaux considèrent volontiers que ce pays fut le berceau de la monnaie, du numéraire comme du papier, dans des époques reculées, antérieures à celles où naissent les phénomènes monétaires occidentaux. En matière de crédit, il semble aussi que l'appareil bancaire y soit apparu plus tôt et sous des formes multiples. La question des finances publiques est, en sens inverse, très différente car elle n'apparaît vraiment dans le modèle étatique qu'au cours du XIXe siècle. Le change, enfin, est à peu près absent du système chinois jusqu'au début du XXe siècle. Mais, l'essentiel des descriptions du modèle monétaire et financier de la Chine, dans cet article, porte surtout sur les évolutions très sensibles entre 1840 et 1937, incluant les participations étrangères, les réformes monétaires et bancaires et les projets de reconstruction économique. La succession des régimes politiques dans cette période vient ainsi modifier très sensiblement et de façon souvent positive l'organisation du dispositif financier de la Chine, jusqu'à la guerre sino-japonaise de 1937.

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  • Jean-Marie Thiveaud, 1997. "Monnaie, crédit, finances en Chine de 1840 à 1937," Revue d'Économie Financière, Programme National Persée, vol. 44(6), pages 27-51.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:recofi:ecofi_0987-3368_1997_num_44_6_2608
    DOI: 10.3406/ecofi.1997.2608
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