近代长江中下游地区农村典当三题

Three topics on the countryside pawnshop in the middle and lower Yangtze River in modern times

典当是中国农村重要的金融机关,与其它借贷相比,利息较低,属于温和的高利贷。典当与农村经济和农民生活关系密切,它不仅是农民重要的融资机构,而且还是连接都市金融与农村金融的桥梁,对农村金融运转有重要的作用。

Pawnshop was one of the most important financial institutions in Chinese countryside, Compared with other credit, it＇s interest was lower, thus it belonged to temperate usury. Pawnshop had intimate relations with the rural economy and the peasant lives. It was not only the important financial organization for peasants, but also the bridge that connected the metropolitan finance and the rural finance. It also played a vital role to the rural finance.