Akinobu Kuroda

Akinobu Kuroda is professor of East Asian history in the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. He specialises in the complementarity of monies in East Asia, India, Africa, and Europe.

Career
Kuroda studied at Kyoto University (BA, 1980, MA 1982, PhD Oriental history 1985. PhD economics 1995). Kuroda was a visiting scholar at Harvard-Yanching Institute, 2014–2015. He was the editor of the International Journal of Asian Studies for fourteen years until 2018. He has been the recipient of several research grants, including:


 * International Collaborative Research on the Variety of Exchange and Multiplicity of Money in Global History, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
 * International Cooperative Research on the Multiplicity of Money: Division of Labour among Monies and its Comparison in the World History, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
 * Money as Social Circuit: Interdisciplinary Research on the Complementarity between Anonymous Currency and Named Credit, Toyota Foundation
 * International Cooperative Research on the Complementarity among Monies Caused by Temporality, Seasonality, and Locality in Making Transactions, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
 * Asymmetric Monies: Revisiting Global Monetary History from the Viewpoints of Complementarity and Viscosity, University of Tokyo Symposium Grant in Aid,
 * Study on the Non-Uniformity and the Complementarity of Monetary Circulation in the World History: Searching for the Possibility of Autonomous and Concurrent Monetary System, Toyota Foundation
 * Unique Characteristics and Synchronicity of Currencies in Medieval and Early Modern East Asia and their Implications in the Theory of Money, Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
 * Comparative Historical Study of Foreign Currencies Circulation in Modern Asian and Africa, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
 * Comparative Historical Study of Trade Silver Dollars Circulation in Asia and Africa and Their Demises, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
 * Comparison between India and China in the Modern World System Centred around Money and Finance, Japanese Ministry of Education

Awards

 * 1994  16th Suntory Academic Prize for Political and Economic Sciences, awarded by the Suntory Foundation, for The Structure of the Chinese Empire and the World Economy (中華帝国の構造と世界経済), 1994

Selected publications
Books


 * 2020 A Global History of Money, Routledge, Abingdon and New York.
 * 2020 World History of Monetary Systems: Interpreting the Asymmetric Phenomenon (貨幣システムの世界史-「非対称性」をよむ), Iwanami 岩波, Tokyo, 2003; 増補新版 supplemented version 2014; 岩波現代文庫版 Iwanami Contemporary Libraries version 2020. (Translated into Chinese :  translated by HE Ping, China's People UP, Beijing, 2007; translated into Korean,  translated by CHUNG Hye-jung 鄭恵仲, Nonhyung, Seoul, 2005).
 * 1994 The Structure of the Chinese Empire and the World Economy (中華帝国の構造と世界経済) Nagoya U.P., Nagoya.

Articles and Book Chapters


 * 2020, 2020–1, 17-26 [Changes in usage of silver in Chinese monetary history - cut, weighed, recorded] (in Chinese)
 * 2018 'Famine of Cash: Why Have Local Monies Remained Popular throughout Human History?' in Georgina Gomez ed. Monetary Plurality in Local, Regional and Global Economies, Routledge, London, 114-122.
 * 2018 ‘Strategic Peasant and Autonomous Local Market: Revisiting the Rural Economy in Modern China’ International Journal of Asian Studies 15–2, 195–227. doi:10.1017/S1479591418000049
 * 2017 ‘Silvers Cut, Weighed, and Booked: Silver Usage in Chinese Monetary History ’, The Silver Age: Origins and Trade of Chinese Export Silver, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, pp. 109–121.
 * 2017  87，pp. 150– 161, 2017(4).
 * 2017 ‘Why and How Did Silver Dominate across Eurasia Late-13th through Mid-14th Century? : Historical Backgrounds of the Silver Bars Unearthed from Orheiul Vechi’, Tyragetia XI {XXVI} (1). Archaeology, pp. 23–34.
 * 2014 'Tin Dependence Historiography: Why Could not Medieval Japan Continue Good Coin Supply? (唯‘錫’史観－なぜ精銭を供給 しつづけられなかったのか)' in K.Iinuma, Hirao Y. and S. Murai eds Daikokai jidai no nihon to kinzoku koeki Metal Trades in Japan of the Great Navigation Era (大航海時代の日本と金属交易), Shibunkaku shuppan, Kyoto, 2014, pp. 18–20.
 * 2013 ‘Anonymous Currencies or Named Debts?: Comparison of Currencies, Local Credits and Units of Account between China, Japan and England in the Pre-industrial Era’, Socio Economic Review 11–1, pp. 57–80. doi:10.1093/ser/mws013
 * 2013 ‘What was Silver Tael System? : A Mistake of China as Silver ‘Standard’ Country’, Moneta 160, pp. 391–397.
 * 2009 ‘The Eurasian Silver Century, 1276-1359: Commensurability and Multiplicity’, Journal of Global History 4–2, pp. 245–269, 2009. [ (1276-1359), translated by Gao Congming,  THINKING 38–6, pp. 79–85, 2012]
 * 2008 ‘What is the Complementarity among Monies? An Introductory Note’, Financial History Review 15–1, pp. 7–15, 2008.
 * 2008 ‘Concurrent but Non-integrable Currency Circuits: Complementary Relationship among monies in Modern China and other Regions’, Financial History Review 15-1 pp. 17–36.
 * 2007 ‘The Maria Theresa Dollar in the Early Twentieth-century Red Sea Region: A Complementary Interface between Multiple Markets’, Financial History Review 14-1 pp. 89–110.
 * 2008 ‘Locating Chinese Monetary History in Global and Theoretical Contexts: From Multiple and Complementary Viewpoints’, in Huang Kuanzhong ed.  (Keynote and Variations: China from 7th century to 20th century) 2, Chengchi U. Dept of History, Taipei, pp. 33–50.
 * 2005 ‘The Collapse of the Chinese Imperial Monetary System’ in K. Sugihara ed. Japan, China and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949, Oxford U.P., pp. 103–126.
 * 2005 ‘Copper-Coins Chosen and Silver Differentiated – Another Aspect of ‘Silver Century’ in East Asia’, Acta Asiatica 88, pp. 65–86.
 * 2003 ‘What can Prices Tell us about the 16th-18th Century China?　- A Review of “Shindai Chugoku no bukka to keizai hendo (Prices and Economic Change in Qing China)” by Kishimoto Mio’, Studies in Chinese History (中国史学) 13, pp. 101–117.
 * 2002 ‘What Did the Silver Influx Really Do to Early Modern Asia?’ in Historical World of China (中国の歴史世界), Tokyo Metropolitan UP, Tokyo, pp. 403–11.
 * 2000 ‘Another Monetary Economy: The Case of Traditional China’, in A.J.H. Latham and H. Kawakatsu eds. Asia Pacific Dynamism 1550-2000, Routledge, London, pp. 187–19.

Articles and Book Chapters in Japanese


 * 2008 'A Theory of Monetary Economy from the Viewpoints of Asian and African History (アジア・アフリカ史発の貨幣経済論)', in H. Imanishi ed. The World System and East Asia (世界システムと東アジア), Japanese Economy Forum (日本経済評論), Tokyo, pp. 28–44.
 * 2007 'Late Medieval Japanese History in the East Asian Monetary Perspective (東アジア貨幣史の中の中世後期日本)', in K. Suzuki ed. Regional History of Money (貨幣の地域史), Iwanami 岩波, Tokyo, pp. 7–42.
 * 1999 'Rise and Fall of Monetary Systems in the World History (貨幣が語る諸システムの興亡)', in Lexicon of World History (岩波講座世界歴史) 15, Iwanami 岩波, Tokyo, pp. 263–285, 1999.
 * 1998 'Multiplicity of Traditional Markets and their Institutional Frameworks: Comparison between China, India and Western Europe (伝統市場の重層性と制度的枠組み——中国･インド･西欧の比較)', Socio-Economic History (社会経済史学) 64–2, pp. 115–138.
 * 1998 'Pan China Sea Economy and Coin Circulation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (16・7 世紀環シナ海経済と銭貨流通)', Journal of Historical Studies (歴史学研究) 711, pp. 2–15.
 * 1996 'Basic Structure of Regional Economy in Traditional China: The Case of Taiyuan County in the Early Twentieth Century (二〇世紀初期太原県にみる地域経済の原基)', Journal of Oriental Researches (東洋史研究) 54–4, pp. 103–136.
 * 1995 'World Economy in the Early Twentieth Century Viewed from the Indigenous Financial System in Asia (アジア在来金融からみた20世紀初期の世界経済)', Historical Review (歴史評論) 539, pp. 76–91.
 * 1994 'The Characteristic of the International Gold Standard System from the View of the Periphery and in Comparison with the China Trade (「周辺」からみた国際金本位制の特質―中国貿易を比較基準として)', in Satoru Nakamura ed. Formation of East Asian Capitalism: From the Viewpoint of Comparative History (東アジア資本主義の形成―比較史の視点から), Aoki 青木, Tokyo, pp. 129–160.
 * 1991 'The Characteristics of the Cotton-Yarn and Raw-Cotton Market in Modern China (中国近代における綿糸棉花市場の特質)', Journal of Historical Studies (歴史学研究) 624, pp. 1–17.
 * 1991 'The Structure of the Silver-Cash Monetary System in the Qing and its Collapse (清代銀銭二貨制の構造とその崩壊)', Socio-Economic History (社会経済史学) 57–2, pp. 93–125.
 * 1988 'Study of the Granary System in the Qing Period: A Interpretation of Economic Structure from Assets Formation (清代備蓄考―資産形態よりみた経済構造論―)', History Journal (史林) 1–6, pp. 1–33, 1988.
 * 1987 'The Appreciation of Copper Coins in the Qianlong Era (乾隆の銭貴)', Journal of Oriental Studies (東洋史研究) 45–4, pp. 58–89.
 * 1986 'Monetary Circulation in the Early Twentieth-Century Middle-Lower Yangzi Region (２０世紀初期揚子江中下流域の貨幣流通), in Sakae Tsunoyma ed., Studies of Japanese Consular Reports (日本領事報告の研究) Dobunkan 同文館, Tokyo,  pp. 385–414.
 * 1985 'Structure of Authoritarian Reformations and its Historical Background: Placing the 1911 Revolution in the Economic-History Perspective (権力的改革の構造とその背景―辛亥革命の経済史的位置―)', Journal of History Studies (歴史学研究) 547, pp. 141–150.
 * 1984 'Revisiting Authoritarian Reformations in Modern China (近代中国における権力的改革の再検討)', History Review (歴史評論) 412, pp. 40–51.
 * 1983 'Independency of the Hubei Provincial Government in Late Qing Period: Financial Prelude to the 1911 Revolution (清末湖北省財政の分権的展開―辛亥革命の財政史的前提―)', History Journal (史林) 66-6, pp. 1–35.
 * 1982 'Monetary Reforms in Hubei Province in the Late Qing Period: Provincial Power as an Economic Apparatus (清末湖北省に於ける幣制改革―経済装置としての省権力―)', Journal of Oriental History Studies (東洋史研究) 41–3, pp. 86–122.