NEW BOOK: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHINESE MONEY

Many thanks to Prof Dai Jianbing for presenting this book to the Dept of Coins and Medals at the British Museum:

DAI Jianbing, Zhongguo huobi wenhua shi [A Cultural History of Chinese Money] (Jinan: Shandong huabao chubanshe, 2011. ISBN 978-7-5474-0146-0

Table of Contents

Ch.1 The birth of Chinese money, and money of the Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods (p.1)

• The birth of Chinese money (p.3)
• Money of Spring and Autumn, and Warring States periods (p.7)

Ch.2 Money of the Qin and Han periods (p.17)

• Unification of money during the Qin (p.19)
• Western Han money (p.21)
• Wang Mang's coinage reforms (p.25)
• Eastern Han money and Han dynasty gold money (p.29)

Ch.3 Interaction between the money cultures of China, ancient Greece and Rome (p.33)

• Alexander the Great's legacy in coins (p.35)
• Indo-Bactria (p.39)
• Lead ingots with foreign inscriptions - the three-white-metal pieces (p.45)
• Coins from Rome (p.47)

Ch.4 Money of the Three Kingdoms, Two Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties (p.49)

• Three Kingdoms money (p.51)
• Coins of the Two Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms (p.54)
• Coins of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (p.57)

Ch.5 Money of the Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (p.63)

• The monetary system of the Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (p.65)
• The westward movement of Tang dynasty money culture (p.73)
• Interaction between money cultures of the Tang and Western Asia (p.76)

Ch.6 Song dynasty money (p.79)

• Bronze and iron coins of the Northern and Southern Song (p.82)
• The birth and development of Song dynasty paper money (p.86)

Ch.7 Liao, Xia, Jin and Yuan dynasty money (p.93)

• Liao money (p.95)
• Xi Xia money (p.98)
• Jin money (p.100)

Ch.8 Yuan dynasty money (p.105)

• Varieties of Yuan dynasty money (p.105)
• Persian paper money and the Arabification of Mongol khanate coins (p.113)

Ch.9 Ming dynasty money (p.117)

• Da Ming tongxing baochao (Ming paper money) (p.119)
• Silver (p.122)
• Ming and late Ming coins (p.125)

Ch.10 The Asian money cultural sphere, with China at the centre (p.133)

• China and Japan (p.136)
• China and Korea (p.139)
• China and Vietnam (p.142)
• China and South East Asian countries (p.145)

Ch.11 Money in the early Qing dynasty (p.149)

• Managing a copper-based coinage across the country (p.151)
• Qing dynasty cash coins (p.158)
• Qing dynasty silver (p.169)
• Exchange rates between silver and cash coins, and unofficial practices (p.174)
• Money cultures in Xinjiang, and interaction with foreign money cultures (p.182)

Ch.12 Copper dollars and silver dollars of the modern period (p.191)

• Foreign silver dollars and their influence on Chinese money culture (p.193)
• The course of China copying foreign silver dollars (p.199)
• Cash coins and copper dollars in the modern period (p.203)
• The transition from silver ingots to silver dollars (p.209)
• Copper dollars and silver dollars in the Republican period (p.225)

Ch.13 Paper money of the modern period (p.247)

• A general survey of paper money (p.249)
• A kaleidoscope of paper money (p.262)

Ch.14 Paper money issued by the government and banks in the modern period (p.273)

• Government-issued notes (chaopiao) (p.275)
• The circulation of foreign banknotes in China (p.278)
• Notes issued by national banks (p.285)
• Notes issued by commercial banks (p.293)
• Notes issued by provincial and regional banks in the Republican period (p.302)

Ch.15 The evolution of the monetary system in the modern period (p.313)

• A monetary system based on silver (p.315)
• From the late Qing Rules of Coinage to replacing the liang with the yuan (p.318)
• The policy on "fabi" (legal currency) and national finance (p.322)
• Currency war between China and Japan (p.329)
• Fake currency, gold yuan notes and the collapse of the monetary system (p.337)

Ch.16 Monetary finance in the revolutionary base areas and the establishment of the renminbi system (p.345)

• The birth of the financial system in the revolutionary base areas (1927-1937) (p.347)
• The development and expansion of the financial system of the New Democracy Movement (1937-1945) (p.350)
• The victory of the New Democracy Movement's financial system across the whole country (1945-1949) (p.361)

Appendix (p.371)

• Carriers of popular culture - coin-shaped charms (p.373)

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