NEW BOOK: CURRENCY AND CULTURE, VOLUME 1

The Xi’an Numismatic Museum (established in 2011) has published the first two volumes in a series in the title Huobi yu wenhua 《货币与文化》. The English title for the first volume is Monetary and Culture, and for the second volume Currency and Culture. The volumes are jointly edited by the Xi’an Numismatic Museum 西安钱币博物馆 and the Xi’an Numismatic Society 西安钱币学会. The editor-in-chief is Mr ZHAO Xiaoming 赵晓明.

Xi’an qianbi bowuguan, Xi’an qianbi xuehui (eds), Huobi yu wenhua / Monetary and Culture, di yi ji (Xi’an: Xi’an chubanshe, 2017). ISBN 978-7-5541-2048-4 // 西安钱币博物馆、西安钱币学会编：《货币与文化》，diyi（西安：西安出版社，2017年）// Xi’an Money Museum and Xi’an Numismatic Society (eds), Monetary and Culture, vol. 1 (Xi’an Publishing House, 2017)./p>

Vol. 1 – Table of Contents

• Foreword – by ZHAO Xiaoming (ed-in-chief) (p.1)

Historic research on Monetary [Research on currency of the past]

• On the "lead cakes with dragon design" unearthed in a Han tomb in Yangzhou (JIANG Baolian, ZHAO Qiang) (6)
• Yuan dynasty silver ingot (Zhending lu Hejian salt-tax) (LI Xiaoping) (13)
• On Western Han "white gold" money (ZHAO Xiaoming) (21)
• On "Liyong tongbao" coins, 17th c (LIU Shunqiang) (26)
• Sales and circulation of late Qing copper dollars (WANG Xianguo) (47)
• On some pre-Qin coins of enfeoffment (DANG Shunmin, DANG De) (54)
• Dating wuzhu coins with rims around the square hole (WANG Taichu) (63)
• The Jianghuai Bank and its notes during the Sino-Japanese War (LI Dong) (70)
• Dragon notes of Shaanxi province during the Xinhai Revolution – five-colour dragon (ZHU Qinghua) (78)
• On the Chuan-Kang Civilians Commercial Bank – Xi’an branch (ZHOU Yanling) (84)
• On gold coins of the Chu state unearthed in Shouxian, Anhui (YUAN Lin) (89)
• On Shaanxi silver ingots (MA Xiao) (92)
• On silver coins cast in Xuantong year 3 (1910) (KOU Shangmin) (104)
• The Qing dynasty coins of Fengtian, with inscription "Bao Feng" (ZHANG Peilin) (112)
• On Tiansheng yuanbao coins, and finds of Xi Xia coins in Wuwei (YU Guangjian, LI Daxiang) (114)
• Two rare boat-shaped silver ingots of the Tang dynasty (WANG Shiyong) (119)
• Copper dollars of Shaanxi (WU Hongwei) (127)
• Notes of the Bank of Taiwan under Japanese occupation (WANG Xiaolong) (132)
• American coins in trans-ocean trade (LIN Nanzhong) (139)
• On Piastres de commerce (trade dollars) (LI Yunheng) (143)

Management of Renminbi

• On the circulation of coins in the Xi’an region (ZHUANG Yibing, CHEN Yaling) (148)
• Management tools and effects of cross-border capital flows based on macro-prudential goals – – the example of Shaanxi province (ZHAO Zihan) (153)
• Thinking about current cash management (QUAN Liyan) (163)
• On RMB anti-counterfeiting cooperation (ZHU Jiang) (167)
• New methods and ways of identifying counterfeits (LENG Xiandan, SUN Yuan, SUN Zhongdao) (170)
• On commemorative coins (LIU Xiaoli) (172)
• Digital money around the world developing in "Chaos and innovation" (ZI Liang) (174)

Monetary Culture Overview

• Kaiyuan tongbao coins in Traditional Chinese Medicine (YANG Huai) (178)
• Qi culture embodied in Qi knife money (CHEN Xu) (185)
• Poetry/songs on German Emergency Currency (notgeld) (LI Chuaming) (189)
• References to money in Chinese poetry (JI Xiaoyong) (195)
• China’s traditional money culture: little red envelopes (hongbao) (QIAN Bo) (198)

Museology

• On colour and lighting in museum displays (AI Jing) (202)
• On risk management when in coin galleries (LIU Shunqiang) (206)
• On education in money museums (ZHAO Xiaoming) (211)
• On Internet+ college/university museums (MENG Xin) (218)
• A bridge connecting museums and school education – collaboration between Hanguang Gate Museum and the Bao’en Temple Street Primary School (CHEN Chen) (222)
• Using new media to serve museum visitors – the Jia Pingwa Literature and Art Gallery (WANG Jun) (228)
• The Internet of Things and the Hanguang Gate Museum, Xi’an (HU Yue, WANG Anwen, CHEN Hao) (232)

Tracing of the Silk Road

• The British East India Company Trade and Money – and a discussion on the "Maritime Silk Road" of Zhoushan in the Ming and Qing (SHENG Guanxi) (242)
• Introduction to the "Kerman Khitans" of Western Asia (LIN Wenjun) (254)
• Na Songkhla coins with Chinese inscriptions (HUANG Hansen) (261)
• On coins of the House of Ogedei (WANG Hailin) (268)
• Coins of Iran, ancient and modern (LIU Zhentang) (277)
• The coins of Malaya tell the history of Southeast Asia (LIN Nanzhong) (280)

Walking in Translation [Translations of foreign works]

• Excerpt from Arthur Young’s China’s Wartime Finance and Inflation, 1937-1945, (tr. FAN Zeyu) (287)
• Excerpt from Jack Belden’s China Shakes the World (tr. FAN Zeyu) (289)

Famous Works Appreciation

• Appreciation of Lu Bao’s The Money God (QIAN Hui) (294)
• Appreciation of The Classic of Coins (QIAN Hui) (299)

Chamber Introduction [About numismatic organisations]

• Xi’an Numismatic Museum (302)
• Xi’an Numismatic Society (312)
• Research Topics of the Xi’an Numismatic Society in 2016 (316)

Contributions welcome (317)

Contact details:

Mr ZHAO Xiaoming, Xi’an Numismatic Museum, 188 Xi da jie, Xi’an city, Shaanxi province, PR China, 710002

Email: 1041394512@qq.com

To read the complete article, see:
62. THE XI’AN NUMISMATIC MUSEUM’S SERIES "CURRENCY AND CULTURE" (1) (https://chinesemoneymatters.wordpress.com/2020/01/23/62-the-xian-numismatic-museums-series-currency-and-culture-1/)

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