Central Government Silver Treasury: Revenue, Expenditure and Inventory Statistics, ca. 1667-1899

SHI Zhihong, gained his PhD from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988. He is currently a Senior Researcher and Professor of Chinese Economic History at the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Professor SHI is the author of several monographs and many articles on China’s agricultural and financial history.

• Series Editors’ Preface to the Quantitative Economic History of China Series ... viiList of Figures and Tables ... viiiEmperors of the Qing Dynasty ... xivChinese Terms ... xvCurrencies Used during the Qing Dynasty ... xxiiIntroduction ... 11 The Central Government’s Silver Treasury ... 41.1 Set-up and Evolution of the Three Stores ... 41.2 Management of the Silver Treasury ... 72 Silver Treasury Registers and Their Copies ... 142.1 Yellow Registers of the Silver Treasury ... 142.2 Copies of the Yellow Registers of the Silver Treasury ... 182.3 Use in this Book of Copies of Yellow Registers ... 232.3.1 Annual Aggregate Revenues, Expenditures and Their Surpluses/Defijicits ... 242.3.2 Annual Inventories of the Silver Treasury ... 253 Silver Treasury Revenues during the Qing Dynasty ... 273.1 Provisions to the Capital and Silver Treasury Revenues ... 273.2 Silver Treasury Revenues from Kangxi to Daoguang: 1662–1850 ... 353.3 Silver Treasury Revenues during Xianfeng and Tongzhi: 1851–1874 ... 453.4 Silver Treasury Revenues during Guangxu: 1875–1908 ... 524 Silver Treasury Expenditures and Payment Surpluses/Defijicits during the Qing Dynasty ... 644.1 From Kangxi to Daoguang ... 644.2 The Xianfeng – Tongzhi Period ... 794.3 Guangxu Period ... 865 Fluctuations in Inventories of the Silver Treasury during the Qing Dynasty ... 965.1 From Kangxi to Daoguang ... 965.2 Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu ... 102Appendix A: Tables of Aggregate Revenue/Expenditure of the Silver Treasury ... 109Appendix B: Inventories of the Silver Treasury under Diffferent Reigns ... 217References ... 245Index ... 250