Empire of Silver

A New Monetary History of China

Empire of Silver
Stacy Mosher, Jin Xu
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Hardback
h243 x 165mm - 384pg
6 Apr 2021 US
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9780300250046
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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.
Jin Xu is senior editor and chief financial commentator at the Financial Times Chinese. She has been a visiting fellow at the University of Tokyo and a Caijing Fellow at Peking University.
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ISBN-13: 9780300250046
Published: 6 Apr 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 243mm
Width: 165mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 726g
Pages: 384

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