03339cam a2200565 i 4500 21617298 OSt 20231206115502.0 200720t20212021ctu b 001 0 eng d 2020942590 GBC113138 bnb 020094730 Uk 9780300250046 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0300250045 (hardcover: alk. paper) 9780300258271 (ebook) (OCoLC)on1184240026 YDX eng rda YDX BDX ERASA UKMGB OCLCO TKN OCLCO OCLCF SINLB GZN DLC lccopycat a-cc--- HG1286 .X82 2021 332.4951 XUJ/E Xu, Jin (Economist) author. 10066 Empire of silver: a new monetary history of China / Jin Xu ; translated by Stacy Mosher. New monetary history of China English edition. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2021] ©2021 viii, 374 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-355) and index. The curse of silver -- The divergent fate of silver in the east and the west -- The Song and Yuan dynasties : experimenting with paper currency -- The Ming dynasty : the silver standard and globalization -- The late Qing : collapsing in chaos -- The Republican era : farewell silver, hello inflation. "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." -- Publisher's website Silver China History. Money China History. Silver coins China. Silver ingots China. Money. fast (OCoLC)fst01025265 Silver. fast (OCoLC)fst01118837 Silver coins. fast (OCoLC)fst01118885 Silver ingots. fast (OCoLC)fst01118921 China. fast (OCoLC)fst01206073 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Mosher, Stacy, translator. Electronic version: Xu, Jin. Empire of Silver. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2021 9780300258271 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 332.4951 XUJ/E 332.4951 XUJ/E 0 0 ddc 0 0 SOCIAL SCIENCE MES MES HIS 2023-12-06 0 332.4951 XUJ/E 43958 2023-12-06 11:55:53 2583.00 2023-12-06 BK GL42R1 43777 43777