The Modern Coinage of China 1866-1949

Download or read book The Modern Coinage of China 1866-1949 written by Richard N. J. Wright and published by Buster Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents the collected research papers of Richard Wright, drawing them together from the various journals in which they were originally published between 1974 and 2003 into a newly set version. The articles have been standardised, replacing the differing formats of those appearing in the Numismatic Chronicle, the Numismatic Circular, and rescuing the rest from the relative obscurity of the more difficult to find publications in which some of them appeared. To the thirty seven articles are added another published here for the first time. Four appendices draw together additional material, and a fifth publishes Richard's last revision of his article on the British medals commemorating the Keying Junk, a maritime marvel of the 1840s. Richard's achievement in these articles and now in this volume is a remarkable example of the quality of numismatic research contributed by collectors. He follows a long tradition of the process of collecting developing into a curiosity no longer satisfied by the available reference work. Building on the work of Kalgan Shih, Eduard Kann and Tracey Woodward, all like him collector scholars, he was able to focus on sources largely unavailable to them to expand and often correct their understandings. Although since the establishment of the People's Republic, Chinese research on China's modern coins has continued the investigation of the coins and sources, Richard's contribution has been to bring into focus the wealth of information available in British archives and collections. These sources have been particularly rich in new information and new understandings."--Back cover.