Akinobu Kuroda


Akinobu Kuroda 2=黑田明伸 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. 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 2=世界史における交換の多様性と貨幣の多元性についての国際共同研究, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2=学術振興会
  • International Cooperative Research on the Multiplicity of Money: Division of Labour among Monies and its Comparison in the World History 2=貨幣の多元性についての国際共同研究：世界史における貨幣間分業とその比較, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2=学術振興会
  • Money as Social Circuit: Interdisciplinary Research on the Complementarity between Anonymous Currency and Named Credit 2=社会的回路としての貨幣：匿名的通貨と指名的信用の相互補完性についての学際的研究, Toyota Foundation 2=トヨタ財団研究助成
  • International Cooperative Research on the Complementarity among Monies Caused by Temporality, Seasonality, and Locality in Making Transactions 2=取引の一時性・季節性そして空間性がもたらす貨幣間の補完性についての国際共同研究, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2=学術振興会
  • Asymmetric Monies: Revisiting Global Monetary History from the Viewpoints of Complementarity and Viscosity 2=非対称な貨幣たち-補完性と粘性からみた貨幣の世界史, University of Tokyo Symposium Grant in Aid, 2=東京大学シンポ助成　
  • 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 2=世界史にみる貨幣流通の非均質性、補完性についての研究――自律的で共存的な貨幣システムの可能性を探る, Toyota Foundation 2=トヨタ財団研究助成
  • Unique Characteristics and Synchronicity of Currencies in Medieval and Early Modern East Asia and their Implications in the Theory of Money 2=中近世東アジア貨幣史の特殊性・共時性とその貨幣論的含意, Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Technology 2=文部科学省　特定研究（東アジア海域）
  • Comparative Historical Study of Foreign Currencies Circulation in Modern Asian and Africa 2=近代アジア・アフリカにおける外国通貨流通の比較史的研究, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2=学術振興会　
  • Comparative Historical Study of Trade Silver Dollars Circulation in Asia and Africa and Their Demises 2=アジア・アフリカにおける貿易銀流通とその終焉についての比較史的研究, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2=学術振興会
  • Comparison between India and China in the Modern World System Centred around Money and Finance 2=貨幣・金融を中心とする近代世界システムにおけるインドと中国の比較, Japanese Ministry of Education 2=文部省　特定（南アジア）

Awards

  • 1994  16th Suntory Academic Prize for Political and Economic Sciences, awarded by the Suntory Foundation, for, 1994

Selected publications

Books
  • 2020 A Global History of Money, Routledge, Abingdon and New York.2020, Iwanami, Tokyo, 2003; supplemented version 2014; Iwanami Contemporary Libraries version 2020..1994 Nagoya U.P., Nagoya.
Articles and Book Chapters
  • 2020 labels=no, 2020–1, 17-26
  • 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 labels=no’, The Silver Age: Origins and Trade of Chinese Export Silver labels=no, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, pp. 109–121.
  • 2017 labels=no 87，pp. 150– 161, 2017.
  • 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 . Archaeology, pp. 23–34.
  • 2014 in K.Iinuma, Hirao Y. and S. Murai eds Daikokai jidai no nihon to kinzoku koeki, Shibunkaku shuppan 2=思文閣出版, 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.
  • 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. p=Jidiao yu bianzou: 7 zhi 20 shiji de Zhongguo 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 “ ” by Kishimoto Mio’, 13, pp. 101–117.
  • 2002 ‘What Did the Silver Influx Really Do to Early Modern Asia?’ in, 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 , in H. Imanishi ed.,, Tokyo, pp. 28–44.
  • 2007 , in K. Suzuki ed., Iwanami, Tokyo, pp. 7–42.1999 , in 15, Iwanami, Tokyo, pp. 263–285, 1999.
  • 1998 , 64–2, pp. 115–138.
  • 1998 , 711, pp. 2–15.
  • 1996 , 54–4, pp. 103–136.
  • 1995 , 539, pp. 76–91.
  • 1994 , in Satoru Nakamura ed., Aoki, Tokyo, pp. 129–160.
  • 1991 , 624, pp. 1–17.
  • 1991 , 57–2, pp. 93–125.
  • 1988 , 1–6, pp. 1–33, 1988.
  • 1987 , 45–4, pp. 58–89.
  • 1986 ', in Sakae Tsunoyma ed., Dobunkan, Tokyo,  pp. 385–414.
  • 1985 , 547, pp. 141–150.
  • 1984 , 412, pp. 40–51.
  • 1983 , 66-6, pp. 1–35.
  • 1982 '', 41–3, pp. 86–122.