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This article follows the trade in silver from Japan to China and examines the role of silver in Chosŏn Korea. Silver was the international currency and the means of settling trade accounts, so its function within Chosŏn society and economy helps us understand the degree to which Chosŏn was involved in international society. A great deal of silver passed through Chosŏn, primarily coming from Japan on its way to China, but silver also came into Korea from China in connection with the Ming armies that fought the Japanese in the 1590s as well as in payment for red ginseng in the eighteenth century. The Chosŏn economy was nearly bi-metallic until the late seventeenth century, thereafter silver disappeared from circulation to be replaced by copper coins. However, silver continued to be used for trade with China until the late eighteenth century and was kept by government organs as a storage currency to be used in case of emergency. The author hypothesizes that Chosŏn’s withdrawal from the entrepôt trade, or its withdrawal from the international trade in silver, from the eighteenth into the nineteenth centuries was one important reason why Chosŏn society was not prepared for the cultural and systemic shocks of the late nineteenth century.

목차

Abstract
 INTRODUCTION
 THE FLOW OF SILVER
 SILVER STOCKS AND SILVER CURRENCY
 CONCLUSION
 GLOSSARY
 REFERENCES

키워드

저자

• OH DOO HWAN [ Professor of Economic History at Inha University ]
• J. B. LEWIS Translate

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  Acta Koreana

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  1520-7412

• 수록기간

  1998~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재,SCOPUS,A&,HCI

• 십진분류

  KDC 912 DDC 951