The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 37, August 28, 2005, Article 22

FEATURED WEB SITE

This week's featured web site is suggested by Roger
deWardt Lane. He writes: "I found a great site from
Shanghai with pictures of Chinese money & bonds:

I think you could spend hours looking at this site and reading
the stories about old Shanghai. They quote the value of the
dollar as follows:

"The unit of Chinese currency is the yuan, a silver dollar
loosely called Mexican. Since it fluctuates less in terms of
Chinese commodities than in terms of gold, it is the only fair
measure of Chinese values. Hence the dollars throughout
this article are Mexican. The 1935 value of the Mexican
dollar is about thirty-four cents."

Watch out for the typos as the English was copied by
Chinese.

When I first found this site my Goggle link took me to one
of their pages, which is linked from the home page as
"Reading" and then "Fortune magazine January 1935".
I found the tales fascinating as it was published at the
time from here in the U.S.A."

Featured Site

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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