Research on Gold and Silver in the Tang and Song Dynasties (Centered on the Monetary Function of Gold and Silver)

Author: (Japanese) Kato Fumio
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Kato Fumio (1880-1946) graduated from the Department of Chinese History at the Literature Faculty of Tokyo Imperial University in 1906 and obtained a doctorate in literature. He was a professor at the Literature Faculty of Tokyo University. He was a pioneer in the study of Chinese economic history in Japan and his major works include Studies on the Economic History of China, An Outline of the Social and Economic History of China, and Research on Gold and Silver in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In 1927, Research on Gold and Silver in the Tang and Song Dynasties won the Japan Academy Prize. In 1944, the China Joint Reserve Bank organized the translation and publication of the Chinese edition. Given the book's continued significance in the study of Chinese currency, especially the history of gold and silver currency, Zhonghua Book Company is now reprinting it based on the 1944 translation. The original translation was in traditional vertical characters, but this reprint has been converted to simplified horizontal characters and some obvious errors have been corrected. The original translation often used fragmented sentences for citations, differing from today's standard punctuation norms, and the quoted ancient texts also varied from today's standardized annotated editions.