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.

Chinese Money in Global Context
Chinese Money in Global Context

Author: Niv Horesh

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-12-18

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0804788545

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Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 offers a groundbreaking interpretation of the Chinese monetary system, charting its evolution by examining key moments in history and placing them in international perspective. Expertly navigating primary sources in multiple languages and across three millennia, Niv Horesh explores the trajectory of Chinese currency from the birth of coinage to the current global financial crisis. His narrative highlights the way that Chinese money developed in relation to the currencies of other countries, paying special attention to the origins of paper money; the relationship between the West's ascendancy and its mineral riches; the linkages between pre-modern finance and political economy; and looking ahead to the possible globalization of the RMB, the currency of the People's Republic of China. This analysis casts new light on the legacy of China's financial system both retrospectively and at present—when China's global influence looms large.

Archaeology and History of the Chinese in Southern New Zealand During the Nineteenth Century
Archaeology and History of the Chinese in Southern New Zealand During the Nineteenth Century

Author: Neville A. Ritchie

Publisher: Sydney University Press

Published: 2023-11-01

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 174332894X

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This revised edition of Dr Neville A. Ritchie’s 1986 PhD dissertation explores the history and archaeology of the 19th century Chinese mining communities in the Clutha Valley, New Zealand. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white line drawings of Chinese domestic and industrial sites, and of the artefacts excavated from them, this study offers unprecedented insight into the life and material culture of these male-only “sojourner” communities. Widely considered the most comprehensive archaeological study of overseas Chinese miners’ experience anywhere in the world, this volume contains the total summation and analysis of artefacts found in 23 Chinese sites excavated over nine years, which included two camps (with 40 individual huts and other features), a Chinese store and 20 rural sites, including miner’s huts and rock shelters. Considered by the Australian Society for Historical Archaeology to be a seminal work in the field of historical archaeology, this 2023 edition introduces Dr. Ritchie’s groundbreaking work to the next generation of archaeologists.

Wealth and Power
Wealth and Power

Author: Orville Schell

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0679643478

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Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.

Academia and Trade
Academia and Trade

Author: Stefan Krmnicek

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-10

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1000843009

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This first part of a 2-volume collection comprises a collection of essays in English by leading scholars on the 19th-century Academia and Trade presenting the latest developments in international scholarship on the numismatic world in the long 19th century. In the 19th century, developments in the study and collection of coins set the cornerstone for modern numismatics. This volume comprises a collection of essays in English by international leading scholars that highlight significant figures of the 19th-century research and the state of the numismatic trade in their time. Centering around collectors and scholars of ancient, medieval, and modern numismatics, and on non-Western coinage and medals against the backdrop of the political, cultural, economic, and social changes of the era, this book presents the latest scholarship on numismatics’ contribution to the cultural history of the 19th century. This volume is essential for students and scholars alike interested in 19th -century history and the history of coins.

The Chinese of Early Tucson
The Chinese of Early Tucson

Author: Florence C. Lister

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 0816511519

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Focuses on an ethnographic collection gathered from a complex of Chinese dwellings, the importance of which lies in its size, diversity, good condition, and observable continuity of materials known from earlier periods of Chinese occupation in Tucson.

East Asia in the World
East Asia in the World

Author: Stephan Haggard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-29

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1108479871

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This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.

The Making of the Modern Chinese State
The Making of the Modern Chinese State

Author: Huaiyin Li

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-13

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0429777892

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The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 offers an historical analysis of the formation of the modern Chinese state from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth centuries, providing refreshing and provocative interpretations on almost every major issue regarding the rise of modern China. This book explores the question of why today’s China is unlike any other nation-state in size and structure. It inquires into the reasons behind the striking continuity in China's territorial and ethnic compositions over the past centuries, and explicates the genesis and tenacity of the Chinese state as a highly centralized and unified regime that has been able to survive into the twenty-first century. Its analysis centres on three key variables, namely geopolitical strategy, fiscal constitution, and identity building, and it demonstrates how they worked together to shape the outcome of state transformation in modern China. Enhanced by a selection of informative tables and illustrations, The Making of the Modern Chinese State: 1600–1950 is ideal for undergraduates and graduates studying East Asian history, Chinese history, empires in Asia, and state formation.

Wages and Currency
Wages and Currency

Author: Jan Lucassen

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9783039107827

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The basic hypothesis of this volume is that currency patterns may tell us something about the spread of wage payments in specific societies in history. The book discusses the relationship between wages and currency, with reference to different countries and regions in Europe, Asia and South America over more than 2000 years.