NEW BOOK: MONEY AND EMPIRE

WANG Chunfa:Huobi yu wangchao: guoji shiyexia qianbi de yingxiang yu gaibian. Beijing shidai huawen shuju. ISBN 978-5699-3724-4. [WANG Chunfa (ed.-in-chief). Money and Empire: coin influence and change from a world perspective. Beijing: Beijing Shidai Huawen shuju, 2020. 325 pp. In Chinese]

This volume is the proceedings of the international conference held at the National Museum of China, 13-14 November 2019. It contains the 32 papers listed below (my translations are approximate) and foreword by the Director of the National Museum of China. A total of 42 papers were presented at the conference and are listed at the back of the book.

• WANG Chunfa (Director, National Museum of China) – Foreword (p.3)
• HUANG Xiquan (Zhengzhou University) – On a newly seen Fancao spade-money weight and Banquan, site of the war between Yandi and Huangdi (p.1)
• HE Ping (China Renmin University) – The principles of coin casting and circulation in ancient China, and the hierarchical structure of money, as see in in King Jing of Zhou's casting large coins (p.7)
• DI Shengli (National Museum of China) – Inscriptions on the large knife-money of Qi (p.13)
• ZHU Anxiang (Hebei Normal University) – Currency circulation in the Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties (p.27)
• GAO Cui (National Museum of China) – Popular customs relating to paper money in the Tang dynasty (p.40)
• JIANG Shunyuan (National Museum of China) – Wen Tianxiang's Shang Hong Zhai Tie reveals a paper money crisis in the late Song dynasty (p.46)
• ZHOU Xiang (Shanghai Museum) – The Dachao tongbao and associated questions (p.52)
• LIU Shunqian (Palace Museum Department of Scientific Research) – Tian qi xing qian and the unification of the national currency in Yunnan in the Ming dynasty (p.59)
• TONG Chunyan (National Museum of China) – Amituofu charms (p.68)
• YE Daoyang (Guangdong Maritime Silk Road Museum) – On the currency objects excavated from the Nanhai No. 1 Shipwreck (p.75)
• WANG Liyan (National Museum of China) – Gold in China's ancient monetary system (p.82)
• ZHAO Xiaoming (Xi'an Numismatic Museum) – Gold money in China – historical predicament and sources (p.93)
• WANG Xianguo (Capital Museum) – The use of silver in early China and the development of the silver liang system (p.106)
• WANG Jijie (China Numismatic Museum) – The nan liang gai zhi 50-ounce ingot of Tianqi 1 (1621) and associated questions (p.114)
• WU Danmin (Shanghai Museum) – On silver currency in the Ming dynasty (p.121)
• LI Jinxiu (Institute of Historical Research, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) – On the Sasanian silver coins in the Shuozhou Museum, Shanxi
• YANG Fuxue (Dunhuang Academy) and YUAN Wei (Guizhou Provincial Museum) – The evolution of inscriptions on Central Asian Hellenistic coins
• GUO Yunyan (Hebei University) – A catalogue of the Byzantine gold coins and gold pieces found in China (p.146)
• LI Xiaojia (Zhongshan University) – An exploration of the changes in headwear on the obverse of Sasanian coins before the 5th century
• Agshun Aliyev (Beijing Foreign Languages University) – Ancient coins unearthed in Azerbaijan and their value on the Silk Road (p.177)
• QI Xiaoyan (Changzhi Institute) – On Sogdian imitations of Chinese ‘Kaiyuan tongbao' coins (p.188)
• ZHENG Yue (Yinchuan Branch, People's Bank of China) –The cultural characteristics of world coins from the dual perspective of coins made in East and West (p.190)
• ZHOU Weirong (China Numismatic Museum) – The Influence of the Silk Road on China's silver money (p.198)
• LAN Rixu (China Central Finance University) – The evolution and characteristics of Silk Road Money (p.208)
• DAI Jianbing (Hebei Normal University) – Trade between ancient India and China and the exchange of coin culture (p.216)
• CAO Guangsheng (Jiu Da Cultural Media Co.) – Han-to-Tang East-West cultural exchange and fusion as seen in the coins of the Zhaowu Nine Tribes (p.224)
• Jonathan JARRETT (University of Leeds), tr. ZHANG Yue – Market exchange in the Byzantine empire and the Reform of Emperor Anastasius I (p.266)
• ZHOU Jianming (Institute of Culture, History and Tourism Management, Guangxi University, and Guilin Numismatic Society – A world view of coins circulation and influence – from the perspective of silver dollars of Annam circulating in China's southwestern border areas (p.277)
• YUAN Lin (Xi'an Branch, People's Bank of China) – The large influx of Japanese and Vietnamese cash into China in the 18th and 19th centuries and how the Qing government responded to it (p.285)
• Georges DEPEYROT (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), tr. ZHANG Yue – The relationship between metal and coins in Europe (p.296)
• Helen WANG (British Museum), tr. ZHANG Yue – Displays of coins and medals at the British Museum, 1759-2019 (p.307)
• The Papers Presented at the Conference // 研讨活动读论文目录 (p.324)

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