The China Coin

The China Coin

Author: Allan Baillie

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 1992-08-03

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1742283829

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'Dad was not here. The three of us were now two, but Dad's last adventure did not have to be over. Not as long as there was someone around to keep it going...' Leah travels across China with her mum, in search of long lost relatives and the answer to an ancient mystery. Grieving for her father, she feels increasingly distanced from her mother. But soon the unfolding terror of Tiananmen Square will draw mother and daughter back together in the most drastic way possible.


The China Coin

The China Coin

Author: Allan Baillie

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780670836253

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A part Chinese girl and her mother go to China to search for family members at a time of student unrest and witness the massacre at Tiananmen Square.


China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937

China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937

Author: Austin Dean

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1501752421

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In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no unified national currency; there was not one monetary standard but many. Silver coins circulated alongside chunks of silver and every transaction became an "encounter of wits." China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 focuses on how officials, policy makers, bankers, merchants, academics, and journalists in China and around the world answered a simple question: how should China change its monetary system? Far from a narrow, technical issue, Chinese monetary reform is a dramatic story full of political revolutions, economic depressions, chance, and contingency. As different governments in China attempted to create a unified monetary standard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the United States, England, and Japan tried to shape the direction of Chinese monetary reform for their own benefit. Austin Dean argues convincingly that the Silver Era in world history ended owing to the interaction of imperial competition in East Asia and the state-building projects of different governments in China. When the Nationalist government of China went off the silver standard in 1935, it marked a key moment not just in Chinese history but in world history.


The Coin Counting Book

The Coin Counting Book

Author: Rozanne Lanczak Williams

Publisher: Charlesbridge

Published: 2010-07-23

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 160734176X

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Twenty-five pennies, four dimes, two nickels, and one quarter… hmm… A pocketful of coins! Who can make heads or tails of it? YOU can with THE COIN COUNTING BOOK. Change just adds up with this bankable book illustrated with real money. Counting, adding, and identifying American currency from one penny to one dollar is exciting and easy. When you have counted all your money, you can decide to save it or spend it.


Fountain of Fortune

Fountain of Fortune

Author: Richard von Glahn

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-07-28

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0520917456

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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.


Chinese Coins

Chinese Coins

Author: Liuliang Yu

Publisher: LONG RIVER PRESS

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781592650170

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Illustrated introductory guide to the history and use of coins and money in China


The Ten Cash Commentary

The Ten Cash Commentary

Author: Michael Zachary

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-02-24

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781508408215

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The definitive English-language guide to the general issue ten cash and one fen coins of the Republic of China issued 1912 to 1948. Covers 162 varieties, as compared to the 49 varieties in the Standard Catalog of World Coins and the 125 varieties in A.M. Tracey Woodward's guide. Do you have the five varieties of Y-301? The eight varieties of Y-302? The five varieties of Y-303? The sixteen varieties of Y-306.2? The nine varieties of Y-307? Are you confused by the descriptions in the Standard Catalog and Woodward's guide? The detailed text and photographs in this guide, which meticulously describes all of the general issue ten cash and one fen varieties, will end your uncertainty.


Modern Coins of China

Modern Coins of China

Author: Kalgan Shih

Publisher: Ishi Press

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9784871878708

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This book covers the field of all modern Chinese coins in Gold, Silver, Nickel and Aluminum. It has 185 plates, 14 figures and about 900 illustrations. It was first published in 1951 in Shanghai, China. It is an amazing book. It was purchased as part of a batch of rare books in a China Guardian Auction held at the Beijing International Hotel in Beijing China on June 30, 2009. No previous information was known about this book


Chinese Cash

Chinese Cash

Author: David Jen

Publisher: Krause Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780873418591

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At long last there is a collector's guide that provides a comprehensive overview of the complex, but fascinating world of Chinese cash coins. Covering more than 3,000 years of numismatic history, this long-awaited volume lists, illustrates and values in multiple condition grades a variety of monetary forms issued in Imperial China. Author David Jen is one of the leading experts in Chinese currency and is well respected in both the United States and Asia. His new work is by far the most complete volume available on the topic, offering history and production details for thousands of issues. In addition, the book includes many newly discovered varieties not listed in any other reference source.


Chocolate Fortunes

Chocolate Fortunes

Author: Lawrence L. Allen

Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 081441432X

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Could there be a more intriguing East-meets-West story than one about the introduction of chocolate-that very symbol of Western indulgence-to legendarily austere China?