imperial economic storm

Imperial Economic Storm: The Last 70 Years of the Qing Empire

A book about how economic problems can bring down an empire.

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Why was the late Qing dynasty able to stand still despite being battered by foreign countries?

It was the birth of Lijin that saved the Qing court from the desperate situation of internal and external difficulties?

How did two common cash crops, opium and tea, change the entire eastern trade pattern?

Why is it said that "the Opium War is the inevitable result of history"? How can we gain insight into the establishment process of the new world trading system?

Why did the depression of business give usury a chance to prosper?

How did the birth of Shanxi Bank, the "big Mac", change the rules of the game in the private financial industry in one fell swoop? However, it was limited by the three aspects of economic subjects, organizational relationships, and operating methods, and could not escape the fate of serving the imperial system. It could only decline along with the Qing Dynasty. In the meantime, how did it miss an opportunity to transform? How to be cut off by the supervision of the Qing government? Why are its various self-rescue methods so ineffective?

A huge empire that is declining day by day, and an ambitious emerging power, in the process of gradually uniting the world, the two inevitably collide together, and the dignity of the "Heavenly Kingdom" is completely crushed under the pressure of reality . At this time, a financial situation full of bad debts is both the cause and the effect of the problem. Under a comprehensive crisis, any radical reform plan is unlikely to achieve fundamental success, and local minor repairs cannot prevent the overall financial system from collapsing.

This book describes the improvements made by the Qing government to the six parts of foreign trade, finance, currency, banking, customs, and chambers of commerce. However, finance is the mother of common government. A series of complex chain reactions eventually led to the complete collapse of the entire regime.

In this era of "great changes unseen in thousands of years", tradition and modernity, conservatism and change, feudalism and republic, various trends of thought are intertwined like never before; In the industrial and commercial society, all kinds of contradictions are staged intensively. This book examines the vicissitudes of the late Qing Dynasty, and reveals the causes of the Qing court's predicament and the development law of its economic reform in the most popular language.

See the changes of the times clearly from the origin of modern China.

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The works of Zhang Xinran, a resident author of "Chinese National History", a resident author of The Paper, and a doctor of history at Hubei University

Jointly recommended by the famous economist Li Weiguang and the best-selling author of Qing History, Jin Manlou.