浅析明朝私人海上贸易与白银货币化之关系

明朝是中国历史上的重要发展阶段,在这个时期,中国社会面临着巨大的发展变迁。在明初,白银并不是合法的流通货币,但由于明朝社会内部的变动,特别是明朝在对外贸中长期保持顺差,在明朝中后期通过私人海上贸易使大量的白银流入中国,为白银的大量流通奠定了基础。白银货币化在长期的历史进程中自下而上再自上而下逐渐完成,而明朝的白银货币化猛烈刺激了中国的白银需求,进一步拉动了海外私人贸易的发展。私人海上贸易与白银货币化的双向互动,见证了明朝市场经济的发展与繁荣,并且成为了明朝与世界联系的纽带,使得明朝参与了世界贸易体系的初步架构,在世界贸易的整体化过程中扮演了举足轻重的作用。

Analysis of the Relationship between Private maritime Trade and the Monetization of Silver

The Ming Dynasty is an important stage in the history of China, and Chinese society had been facing huge development change in this period. In the early Ming Dynasty, silver was not legitimate currency in circulation, but because of the changes within society of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Ming Dynasty had been the surplus of foreign trade in the long-term, the private maritime trade made a lot of silver flu into China in the Mid and late Ming Dynasty, laid the foundation for the enormous flow of silver. The monetization of silver finished gradually with the model of bottom-up and top-down in the long historical process, while the monetization of silver of the Ming Dynasty violently stimulated China＇s silver demand, further stimulated the development of private overseas trade. Two-way interaction of private maritime trade with the silver monetization witnessed the development and prosperity of the market economy, and has become the link between the Ming Dynasty and the world economy, made the Ming Dynasty participate a preliminary framework of the world trade system, and it also had played a pivotal role in the whole process of world trade.