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Projekt
Qing Coinage, 1850 to 1911: Mint Statistics, Numismatic Evidence, and Monetary Policy
Antragsteller
Professor Dr. Hans Ulrich Vogel
Fachliche Zuordnung
Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Außereuropäische Kulturen, Judaistik und Religionswissenschaft
Förderung
Förderung von 2005 bis 2012
Projektkennung
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 13020509
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.
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