Download or read book Early Chinese Coinage written by Yuquan Wang and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Coins written by Liuliang Yu and published by LONG RIVER PRESS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated introductory guide to the history and use of coins and money in China
Download or read book Chinese Early Barter and Uninscribed Money written by Henry A. Ramsden and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coins of Korea written by Alan David Craig and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coins of China written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Ancient Chinese coinage, Banliang, Chinese coinage during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, Chinese coinage in the Ming Dynasty, Chinese Gold Panda, Chinese Silver Panda, Fifth series of the renminbi, Fourth series of the renminbi, Second series of the renminbi, Sycee, Third series of the renminbi, Tong Bei. Excerpt: Chinese coins were produced continuously for around 2,500 years by casting in moulds, rather than being struck with dies as with most western coins. The earliest coinage of China was described by Sima Qian, the great historian of c. 100 BC: "With the opening of exchange between farmers, artisans, and merchants, there came into use money of tortoise shells, cowrie shells, gold, qian (coins), dao (knives), and bu (spades) This has been so from remote antiquity." While nothing is known about the use of tortoise shells as money, gold and cowries (either real shells or replicas) were used to the south of the Yellow River. Although there is no doubt that the well-known spade and knife money were used as coins, it has not been demonstrated that other items often offered by dealers as coins such as fish, halberds, and metal chimes were also used as coins. They are not found in coin hoards, and the probability is that all these are in fact funerary items. Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest use of the spade and knife money was in the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC). As in Ancient Greece, socio-economic conditions at the time were favourable to the adoption of coinage. Inscriptions and archaeological evidence show that cowrie shells were regarded as important objects of value in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1766-1154 BC). In the Zhou period, they are frequently referred to as gifts or rewards from kings and nobles to their subjects. Later imitations in bone, stone or bronze...
Download or read book On Chinese Currency written by W. Vissering and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Chinese Currency written by Willem Vissering and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monograph on the History of Money in China from the Earliest Times to the Present written by Alexander Del Mar and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Chinese Currency Coin and Paper Money written by Willem Vissering and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Download or read book The Cultural Exchange History of Ancient Currency between China and Other Countries written by Jianbing Dai and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the currency culture of human history, there are two wonderful works that are immortal. One is that of China, an ancient Oriental civilization, which has influenced the currency culture of many Asian countries for more than a thousand years. The other is the monetary culture of ancient Greece, the birthplace of western monetary culture, which later gave rise to the Arab and Indian coin systems. This book presents survey on Chinese ancient currency of all ages, before moving on to elaborate upon the history of currency culture exchange between China and other countries, such as ancient Greece and Rome, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Asia, Western and central Asia. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on the currency development of the neighboring Asian regions and countries, as well as the interaction between ancient Chinese coins and European and American coins in different periods.
Download or read book Chinese Numismatics written by Helen Wang and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the history of the field of Chinese numismatics from both Eastern and Western perspectives. Consisting of four papers that complement each other beautifully, it gives a sound introduction to the study of Chinese numismatics, focusing on the 19th century and, crucially, how to think about Chinese money.In "Currencies of Ancient China from their Origins to the Late Empire", François Thierry notes how Europeans sometimes understood Chinese money and sometimes got it completely wrong. In "Numismatic Friendship: Social Networks of Numismatists and Coin Collectors During the Late Qing Dynasty", Lyce Jankowski opens up the world of Chinese collectors of Chinese coins, their networks and motivations. In "A Short History of Chinese Numismatics in Western Languages", Helen Wang surveys publications to 1900, giving information about the authors, their occupations, motivations and areas of interest; and in "Chinese Money Matters, So Why Does It Have Such a Low Profile?" she looks at the current situation, and offers routes into the field. In his Introduction, Joe Cribb reflects on his study of Chinese money and how it has informed his career in numismatics.
Download or read book Ancient Chinese Coinage written by Frank Herring Chalfant and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin and Earlier History of the Chinese Coinage written by Lionel Charles Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Chinese Coins written by Holger Jorgensen and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire of Silver written by Jin Xu and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stability This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song dynasty in around 900 CE, silver gradually became central to China’s economic framework and was officially monetized in the middle of the Ming dynasty during the sixteenth century. However, due to the early adoption of paper money in China, silver was not formed into coins but became a cumbersome “weighing currency,” for which ingots had to be constantly examined for weight and purity—an unwieldy practice that lasted for centuries. While China’s interest in silver spurred new avenues of trade and helped increase the country’s global economic footprint, Jin Xu argues that, in the long run, silver played a key role in the struggles and entanglements that led to the decline of the Chinese empire.
Download or read book Fountain of Fortune written by Richard von Glahn and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity’s diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon but rather as an embodiment of greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion—as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn’s study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture. Surveying Chinese religion from 1000 BCE to the beginning of the twentieth century, The Sinister Way views the Wutong cult as by no means an aberration. In Von Glahn’s work we see how, from earliest times, the Chinese imagined an enchanted world populated by fiendish fairies and goblins, ancient stones and trees that spring suddenly to life, ghosts of the unshriven dead, and the blood-eating spirits of the mountains and forests. From earliest times, too, we find in Chinese religious culture an abiding tension between two fundamental orientations: on one hand, belief in the power of sacrifice and exorcism to win blessings and avert calamity through direct appeal to a multitude of gods; on the other, faith in an all-encompassing moral equilibrium inhering in the cosmos.
Download or read book On Chinese Currency written by W. Vissering and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
