SHIROYAMA, Tomoko

SHIROYAMA, Tomoko

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SHIROYAMA, Tomoko / Professor

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Curriculum Vitae

Education

1999 Harvard University Ph. D., History
1992 Harvard University A.M., History
1990 The University of Tokyo A.M.
1988 The University of Tokyo A.B.

Professional Experience

April 2014- The University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan), Graduate School of economics, Professor
June 2008-March 2014 Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo, Japan), Graduate School of Economics, Professor
2002-May 2008 Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo, Japan), Graduate School of Economics, Associate Professor
1996-2002 Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan), Faculty of Letters, Associate Professor

Research Field

Chinese Economic History, Asian Socio-Economic History

Research Theme

From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, China as the only silver-standard country possessed the unique position in the Gold-standard based international monetary system.  Exploring the structures and dynamics of the Chinese monetary and financial system in terms of their linkages to the world economy has been one of my main research topics since my previous book project on China During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937.  Another focus of my research is on commodity trades and overseas Chinese in Asia. Based upon those individual projects on Chinese and Asian History, I have led the group project on the intra-Asian comparison of socioeconomics focusing on the monsoon climate and hydrosphere.  By constructing the database on human activities and natural environments and applying spatial analyses, the project is exploring a new historical narrative of the region.

Publications

Articles

  • “Chinese International Banking.” In Ayumu Sugawara and Takeshi Nishimura eds, The Development of International Banking in Asia, pp. 309-336. Tokyo: Springer, 2020.
  • Tomoko Shiroyama, “Overseas Chinese Remittances in the Mid-Twentieth Century.” In Chi-chueng Choi, Takashi Oishi, and Tomoko Shiroyama eds. Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia: Networking Businesses and Formation of Regional Economy, pp. 72-103, Leiden: Brill, 2019.
  • “Dai 6 shō: Chūgoku” (Chapter 6: China) in Kokusai ginkōshi kenkyū kai ed. Kinyū no sekaigendaishi (Contemporary World History of Banking) (Tokyo: Ishiki shuppan, 2018), pp. 279-310.
  • “Kōho Shunsetsu 1907-1910: Morrison panfuretto nai shiryō no ichizuke” (Drainage of Huangpu River: Related Documents in the Morrison Pamphlet Collection) in Yoshinobu Shiba eds, Morison panfretto no sekai 2 (The World of Morrison Pamphlet, 2) (Tokyo: Oriental Library, 2016), pp. 157-177.
  • “Native Banking vs Imperial Banking in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Formation of the Joint Reserve Board in Shanghai to Foster Credit and Credibility” Hubert Bonin, Nuno Valério and Kazuhiko Yago eds., Asian Imperial Banking History (Pickering & Chatto, 2014), pp. 203 -224.
  • “The Hong Kong–South China Financial Nexus: Ma Xuchao and His Remittance Agency” in Sherman Cochran ed. The Capitalist Dilemma in China’s Communist Revolution: Stay, Leave, or Return? (Ithaca: Cornel East Asia Series, 2014) pp. 203 -224.
  • “Book Review: Seung-Joon Lee, Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011)” Pacific Affairs Vol. 86 No.4 (December 2013): 911-913.
  • “Institutions Governing Long-Distance Trade in Asia During the 18th and 19th Centuries: Example from the Gongguan Archives of Batavia” Modern Asian Studies Review, Vol. 4, 2013.
  • “Shanghai keizai no 170 nen: Tochi seido to toshi kaihatsu wo meguttte” (170 years of Shanghai Economy: Real estate institutions and urban development) in Makoto Saito ed., Kyōyō to shite no keizaigaku (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2013), pp. 182-191.
  • “Sekai boueki to kessai” in Socio-economic History Association ed, Shakai keizai shigaku no kadai to tenbō (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2013), pp. 292-306.
  • “Kindai Chūgoku heisei kaikaku ron no keifu: Jeremiah Jenks wo chūshin to shite” (The proposals for the currency reform in modern China: Jeremiah Jenk’s case) in Yoshinobu Shiba eds, Current Affairs modern East Asia: From the Shelves of the George Morrison Pamphlet Collection (Tokyo: Toyo Bunko, 2012), Chapter 5.
  • “The Shanghai Real Estate Market and Capital Investment, 1860-1936” in Billy K. L. So and Ramon H. Myers eds., The Treaty Port Economy in Modern China: Empirical Studies of Institutional Change and Economic Performance (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley,China Research Monograph 65, 2011), Chapter 4.
  • “Chūgoku to sekai keizai” (China and the world economy) in Yujiro Murata, Wataru Iijima, and Toru Kubo eds., Shirīzu 20 seiki Chūgoku 2: Kindaisei no kōzō (Tokyo: Tokyo daigaku shuppankai, 2009), Chapter 8.
  • “Book Review: Di Wang, The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)”International Journal of Asian Studies 7.1(January 2010).
  • “Gin no sekai: kahei to 16 seiki ikō no gurōbaru keizai” (The world of silver: Currencies and the global economy since the 16th century) in Gurōbaru gabanansu: Genzai to kako no aida edited by Ken Endō (Tokyo: Tōshindō, 2008), Chapter 7.
  • “19 shijimo de zikoubanshui zhidu yu neidi maoyi: Yi Hankou weili” (Transit tax system and inland trade in the late 19th century China: The case of Hankou) in Zhang Fuyun yu jindai Zhongguo edited by Cheng Linsun and Zhang Zhixiang (Shanghai: Shanghai shehui kexueyuan chubanshe, 2007), 112-122.
  • “China in the Gold-Standard Monetary System: The Political Economy of the Exchange Rate between China and Japan in the Early 20th Century” Hong Kong Journal of Modern Chinese History 4 (2006), 1-28.
  • “1930 nendai Chūgoku to kokusai tsūka shisutemu” (China and the international monetary system in the 1930s) Kokusai seiji 146 (November 2006), 88-102.
  • “Structures and Dynamics of Overseas Chinese Remittance in the Mid- 20th Century” XIV International Economic History Congress CD-ROM (August 2006).
  • “Zailun guomin zhengfu 1935 nian bizhi gaige” (1935 currency reform by the Nationalist government reconsidered) in Jindai Zhongguo: Jingji yu shehui yanjiu, edited by Zhu Yingui and Dai Angang (Shanghai: Fudan daxue chubanshe, 2006), 240-252.
  • “Companies in Debt: Financial Arrangements in the Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1895-1937,” in Contract and Property in Early Modern China, edited by Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, and Robert P. Gardella (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), 298-326.
  • “1934-1935 nian baiyin fengchao yu Shanghai jinrong shichang (1934-1935 silver crisis and Shanghai financial market)” in Shanghai jinrong de xiandaihua yu guojihua, edited by Wu Jingping and Ma Changlin (Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2003), 516-526.
  • “Shanghai kinyū kyōkō (1934~1935 nen) ni kansuru ichi kōsatsu: kokusai kokunai shijō renkan to shijō seifu kan kankei no shikaku kara” (A study on Shanghai financial crisis in 1934-35: Linkages between the international and domestic markets and the state-market relations), Tōyōshi kenkyū 58. 2 (September 1999), 1-42.
  • “Shanghai sokai chiku ni okeru fudōsan torihiki to toshi hatten” (Real estate transactions and the urban development in the pre-war Shanghai settlement), Shakai keizai shigaku 62. 6 (February and March, 1997), 1-30.
  • “Kaiko to tenbō: chūgoku kindai” (Retrospects and prospects: Studies on modern China), Shigaku zasshi 104. 5 (May 1995), 241-248.
  • “Fei Xiaotong’s 1957 Critique of Agricultural Collectivization in a Chinese Village,” Papers on Chinese History (The Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University) Vol. 2 (1993), 19-32.
  • “Jūkyū seiki matsu chūgoku ni okeru kaikōjō naichi shijō kan kankei: Kankō wo jirei to shite” (Relationships between treaty ports and inland markets in the late nineteenth century China:  A case of Hankou), Shakai keizai shigaku 57. 5 (November 1992), 85-112.
  • Books and Monographs

    • Chi-chueng Choi, Takashi Oishi, and Tomoko Shiroyama eds. Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia: Networking Businesses and Formation of Regional Economy. Leiden: Brill, 2019, xii, pp. 355. Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia: Networking Businesses and the Formation of a Regional Economy (co-editor) (Leiden: Brill, 2019)
    • Modern Global Trade and the Asian Regional Economy (editor) (New York: Springer, 2018)
    • Dai kyō kō ka no Chūgoku: Shijō, kokka, sekaikeizai (Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2011)
    • Da xiaotiao shiqi de Zhongguo: Shichang, guojia, yu shijie jingji 1929-1937  (Nanjing: Haiwai Zhongguo yanjiu congshu, Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, 2010)
    • China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008).

    Others

    • “Book Review: No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945. By Felix Boecking,” Journal of Chinese Studies No. 67 (2018): 332-335.
    • “Book Review: Seung-Joon Lee, Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011)” Pacific Affairs Vol. 86 No.4 (December 2013): 911-913.
    • “Book Review: Di Wang, The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)” International Journal of Asian Studies 7.1(January 2010).

Other Professional Activities and Awards

Other Professional Activities and Services

  • Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S): The Hydrosphere and Socioeconomics in Modern Asia - Exploring a New Regional History Using a Database and Spatial Analysis. Project Leader. 2017-2021.

Awards

  • The 28th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize for the publication of Dai kyō kō ka no Chūgoku: Shijō, kokka, sekaikeizai (Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2011)      2012