Niv Horesh (Hebrew: ניב חורש, Chinese: 荷尼夫; born 1971) is a researcher at

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, Australia. He was also Visiting Professor in China Studies at the

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Durham University , mottoeng = Her foundations are upon the holy hills (Psalm 87:1) , established = (university status) , type = Public , academic_staff = 1,830 (2020) , administrative_staff = 2,640 (2018/19) , chancellor = Sir Thomas Allen , vice_chan ...

, United Kingdom. Besides his academic work, he is also a frequent commentator on current affairs in newspapers such as the

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and

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Published works

His first book, ''Shanghai's Bund and Beyond'' (Yale UP, 2008), is the first comparative study of foreign banking in prewar China. The book surveys the impact of British overseas

bank notes A banknote—also called a bill (North American English), paper money, or simply a note—is a type of negotiable promissory note, made by a bank or other licensed authority, payable to the bearer on demand. Banknotes were originally issued ...

on China's economy before the outbreak of the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

in 1937. Focusing on the two leading British banks in the region (

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and

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (informally The Chartered Bank) was a bank incorporated in London in 1853 by Scotsman James Wilson, under a Royal Charter from Queen Victoria.

), it assesses the favourable and unfavourable effects of the British presence in China, with particular emphasis on

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

, and traces instructive links between the changing political climate and banknote circulation volumes. Drawing on recently declassified archival materials, Niv Horesh revises previous assumptions about China's prewar economy, including the extent of foreign banknote circulation and the economic significance of the

May Thirtieth Movement The May Thirtieth Movement () was a major labor and anti-imperialist movement during the middle-period of the Republic of China era. It began when the Shanghai Municipal Police opened fire on Chinese protesters in Shanghai's International Settle ...

of 1925. Horesh's second book ''Chinese Money in Global Context'' (Stanford UP 2013, Economics and Finance Series) makes for a China-centered examination of the evolution of money and finance around the world since the birth of coinage in

Lydia Lydia (Lydian language, Lydian: ‎𐤮𐤱𐤠𐤭𐤣𐤠, ''Śfarda''; Aramaic: ''Lydia''; el, Λυδία, ''Lȳdíā''; tr, Lidya) was an Iron Age Monarchy, kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the mod ...

(in what is today western Turkey) and up to the present. It also situates current efforts at RMB internationalisation within the broad sweep of the post-Bretton Woods world order. His third book is ''Shanghai, Past and Present''. It is an introduction to the warp and weft of the city's history written with non-specialists in mind. His fourth book is ''Superpower China ? Historicizing Beijing's New Narratives of Leadership and East Asia's Response Thereto''. Horesh is lead author here with Dr Kim and Dr Mauch as co-authors. ''Superpower China ?'' features at length analyses of contemporary IR debates in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

References

External links

Shanghai's Bund and BeyondChinese Money in Global Context Superpower China ?
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