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100	1		_aXu, Jin _c(Economist) _eauthor. _910066
245	1	0	_aEmpire of silver: _ba new monetary history of China / _cJin Xu ; translated by Stacy Mosher.
246	3	0	_aNew monetary history of China
250			_aEnglish edition.
264		1	_aNew Haven ; _aLondon : _bYale University Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021
300			_aviii, 374 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-355) and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_a"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." -- _cPublisher's website
650		0	_aSilver _zChina _xHistory.
650		0	_aMoney _zChina _xHistory.
650		0	_aSilver coins _zChina.
650		0	_aSilver ingots _zChina.
650		7	_aMoney. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01025265
650		7	_aSilver. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01118837
650		7	_aSilver coins. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01118885
650		7	_aSilver ingots. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01118921
651		7	_aChina. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01206073
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700	1		_aMosher, Stacy, _etranslator.
776	0	8	_iElectronic version: _aXu, Jin. _tEmpire of Silver. _dNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2021 _z9780300258271
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