institutions. The first comparative study of foreign banking in prewar China, the book surveys the impact of British overseas bank … notes on China's economy before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. Focusing on the two leading British banks in … the region, it assesses the favorable and unfavorable effects of the British presence in China, with particular emphasis …

, Economica, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Economic History Review, European Economic History, and British …Forrest Capie is Professor of Economic History at Cass Business School, City University, London, where he was Head of … Social Sciences. He was editor of the Economic History Review and served on the editorial boards of other journals in the …