"In Asian Imperial Banking History edited by Hubert Bonin, Nuno Valerio, and Kazuhiko Yago, the under-appreciated monetary-basis of colonialism is rigorously explored in a collection of seven balanced essays. From the salient assessments of the contributors, scholars of modern world history now possess a new and profitable study on the financial underpinning of empire in both Asia and Africa...Asian Imperial Banking History constitutes a significant contribution to the study of empire before and after the turn of the century." - Jeff Roquen, LSE Review of Books

• Part I: Th e Specificities of Imperial Banking Introduction: Issues Regarding Asian Imperial Banking 1 French Overseas Banking as an Imperial System: A Background for Asian Developments – Part II: Imperial Banking in China 2 Correspondent Banking Networks and Branch Activities in ‘Imperial Banking’: Th e Russo-Chinese Bank in Shanghai in 1902 3 Competing Imperial Banking: Th e Yokohama Specie Bank and HSBC in China – 1919 as a Watershed? – 4 Native Banking vs Imperial Banking in Early Twentieth-Century China: Th e Formation of the Joint Reserve Board in Shanghai to Foster Credit and Credibility – Tomoko Shiroyama

"In Asian Imperial Banking History edited by Hubert Bonin, Nuno Valerio, and Kazuhiko Yago, the under-appreciated monetary-basis of colonialism is rigorously explored in a collection of seven balanced essays. From the salient assessments of the contributors, scholars of modern world history now possess a new and profitable study on the financial underpinning of empire in both Asia and Africa...Asian Imperial Banking History constitutes a significant contribution to the study of empire before and after the turn of the century." - Jeff Roquen, LSE Review of Books

• Part I: Th e Specificities of Imperial Banking Introduction: Issues Regarding Asian Imperial Banking 1 French Overseas Banking as an Imperial System: A Background for Asian Developments – Part II: Imperial Banking in China 2 Correspondent Banking Networks and Branch Activities in ‘Imperial Banking’: Th e Russo-Chinese Bank in Shanghai in 1902 3 Competing Imperial Banking: Th e Yokohama Specie Bank and HSBC in China – 1919 as a Watershed? – 4 Native Banking vs Imperial Banking in Early Twentieth-Century China: Th e Formation of the Joint Reserve Board in Shanghai to Foster Credit and Credibility – Tomoko Shiroyama