Description: Empire of Silver : A New Monetary History of China, Hardcover by Xu, Jin; Mosher, Stacy (TRN), ISBN 0300250045, ISBN-13 9780300250046, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK "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 toChina'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." --
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Book Title: Empire of Silver : A New Monetary History of China
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Empire of Silver: a New Monetary History of China
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Economics, Government, History
Item Height: 243 mm
Item Weight: 726 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Jin Xu
Item Width: 165 mm
Format: Hardcover
