NEW BOOK: CURRENCY AND CULTURE, VOLUME 2

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 (see previous post), 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 / Currency and Culture, di er ji (Xi’an: Xi’an chubanshe, 2019). ISBN 978-7-5541-3283-8 // 西安钱币博物馆、西安钱币学会编：《货币与文化》第二辑（西安：西安出版社，2019年）// Xi’an Money Museum and Xi’an Numismatic Society (eds), Currency and Culture, vol. 2 (Xi’an Publishing House, 2019).

Below is my rough translation of the contents into English. For the original Table of Contents in Chinese, see Currency and Culture 2

Vol. 2 – Table of Contents

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

Historic research on currency

• China’s silver money by weight (Jin Deping) (6)
• On Jin dynasty copper plates for paper money WANG Yong) (31)
• The Mongol Empire and coins of the khanates (LI Tiesheng) (51)
• "Qianbi" and "huobi" in historical materials (WANG Jijie) (60)
• On the coins unearthed beneath the Longping pagoda, at the Longzhen site, Shanghai (ZHOU Xiang) (64)
• On the round coins with the inscription Gong tun chi jin (WANG Liyan) (69)
• Computing information on ancient coins – taking Wang Mang’s coins as an example (JIANG Baolian, QIN Jianming) (76)
• On the character "jing" on spade money (BAI Qinchuan) (82)
• New research on moulds and casting of Qi knife money (CHEN Xu) (87)
• On Ningbo coin-shops and their account-keeping (SHENG Guanxi) (98)
• On the casting technique of Tang dynasty Kaiyuan tongbao coins (YANG Huai) (108)
• On Qing dynasty silver ingots of Changguan (CHEN Kun) (119)
• On the birth of banliang coins, and different types of banliang (WANG Taichu) (125)
• So many Northern Song dynasty coins, and not a single mother coin? (ZHANG Mailin) (137)
• Stone cowries, and stone discs of the Spring and Autumn, and early Warring States period (TANG Shunde, TANG De) (150)
• The "silver rider" coin (ducaton) in Chinese-Dutch trade (WANG Weili) (157)
• Silver coins piled up high in the Thirteen Hongs – foreign coins in China in the Ming and Qing periods (LUO Wenjing) (164)
• On Shaanxi copper dollars (HE Kangmin) (173)
• How to tell if a silver dollar is genuine or not? (JI Shaoyong) (180)
• Foreign silver coins dominated the Chinese market in the late Qing, early Republic (FENG Jing) (182)

Renminbi research

• On the impact of market-based reform on short-term capital flow based on the VAR model (ZHAO Zihan (190)
• On the past life of Renminbi Series 4 (ZHAO Xiaoli) (203)
• On the three different types of 100-yuan note in RMB Series 5 (YIN Dongfeng, ZHANG Jingtao, SUN Zhongdao) (209)

Monetary Culture Overview

• What are coin-shaped charms? (LIU Chunsheng) (214)
• Commemorative medals as an extension of China’s traditional folk coins (ZHANG Deyou) (226)
• On the technique of taking rubbings, and coin rubbings (ZHAO Xiaoming) (234)

Museology

• The cultural value of coin displays in the new interconnected era (BAI Lihua) (250)
• Museums are an important foundation for developing cultural industries (ZHAO Xiaoming) (254)
• On patterns of cultural industry in university/college museums (MENG Xin) (259)
• The relationship between university/college museums and the cultural industries (ZHANG Dongjing) (263)
• The Silk Road cultural values of the Hanguang Gate site (DU Dexin) (267)
• The significance of building museum cultural industries (ZHANG Juan) (272)
• The development of museum cultural industries – the example of the Tang Sancai Art Museum (ZENG Lirong) (275)
• Museum cultural industries and protection of intellectual property (LI Yiming) (280)
• How museum cultural products are developing and the status quo – the example of the Jia Pingwa Literature and Art Gallery (WANG Jun) (283)

Tracing of the Silk Road

• Coins of the Golden Horde (LI Tiesheng) (288)
• Coins of the Western Regions seen in Journey to the West (YUAN Wei) (292)
• The camel trade on the Silk Road of the Steppes as a reference for Belt and Road (SU Lide) (301)

Walking in Translation [Translations of foreign works]

• "Sasanian Coins", by Mrs Elahe ASKARI and Dr Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, The British Academy Review, Jan-Jul 2001) (tr. CHEN Yaling) (310)
• "Chinese coin found at Kottapatnam, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh", by K.P. Rao and Joe Cribb, Numismatic Digest (Nasik), vols 23-24 (1999-2001), pp. 133-158. (tr. ZHANG Jiajia) (314)

Famous Works Appreciation

• Appreciation of "Order to drive out illicit coinage" (WANG Yan, YUAN Ye) (318)
• Appreciation of the poem "Ode to Coins" (YIN Fanglin) (323)

Chamber Introduction [About numismatic organisations]

• Hangzhou World Coin Museum (ZHU Jianguo) (326)
• Displaying the wonderful money culture of the Silk Road – the Xinjiang Numismatic Museum (HUANG Zhigang) (331)
• Shandong Numismatic Society (LU Bo) (334)
• Qilu Numismatic Museum (QI Quan) (337)
• The Xi’an Numismatic Museum’s survey of portable antiquities in Shaanxi province (QIAN Bo) (339)

Contributions welcome (343)

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:
63. THE XI’AN NUMISMATIC MUSEUM’S SERIES "CURRENCY AND CULTURE" (2) (https://chinesemoneymatters.wordpress.com/2020/01/24/63-the-xian-numismatic-museums-series-currency-and-culture-2/)

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