Yen-liang Chen National Dong Hwa University   Department of History National Dong Hwa University Hualian, 974 Taiwan   harold@mail.ndhu.edu.tw             JEL Areas: E5 : Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General N1 : Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative