A brief history of foreign debt in China /

This book provides a brief history of how foreign debt has shaped and influenced the development of China in the past 170 years. It discusses both government and non-government debt. In modern China, especially after the first Sino-Japanese War, the foreign debt problem was a huge burden and influen...

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Main Author: Zhengping, Chen (Author)
Other Authors: Mirong, Chen (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Chinese
Published: United Kingdom : Paths International Limited : Social Sciences Academic Press (China), [2014]
Series:Economic history in China series.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Foreign debt before the First Sino-Japanese War; 1.1 The change of "commercial debt" into "government debt" before the Opium War; 1.2 The foreign loans to suppress the Small Swords Society and the Taiping Army; 1.3 "The western expedition loans"; 1.4 The Fujian Loan for Taiwan Defense; 1.5 The foreign loans for the Sino-French War; 1.6 Industrial borrowings started; 2 Foreign Debt in the Late Qing Dynasty; 2.1 Foreign loans concerning the First Sino-Japanese War; 2.2 Railway loans in late Qing; 2.3 The So-called "Boxer Indemnity Loan"
  • 2.4 Other foreign loans to the Qing government3 Foreign Debt of the Nanjing Provisional Government and the Beiyang Government; 3.1 Foreign debt of the Nanjing Provisional Government; 3.2 The international banking consortium's monopoly on loans to China and the Reorganization Loan; 3.3 Foreign debt of the Beiyang Government between May 1913 and 1916; 3.4 The Nishihara Loans; 3.5 The new international banking consortium and obligations of the Beiyang government in the later period; 3.6 Historical lessons of Hanyeping's excessive borrowings from Japan
  • 4 Foreign Debt during the Reign of the Kuomintang4.1 Readjustment of foreign loans by the Nanjing Nationalist Government; 4.2 The American Wheat Loan, the American Cotton & Wheat Loan and the Sino-German Barter Credit Loan; 4.3 The railway loans to the Nanjing government before the anti-Japanese war; 4.4 The foreign loans to the nationalist government during the anti-Japanese war period; 4.5 The foreign loans after the anti-Japanese war; 5 General Evaluation; References; Copyright