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384 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300250046
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 23 February 2021
Description
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 cent...
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384 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780300250046
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 23 February 2021
Description
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 cent...