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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;otlichnik, post: 5474880, member: 109731&quot;]I am glad there is an active interest in Chinese and Asian cash here.</p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone wants to do some serious (and free) reading on Chinese coinage I encourage you to download Peng Xinwei&#039;s &quot;<a href="https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&amp;context=easpress" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&amp;context=easpress" rel="nofollow">A Monetary History of China, Volumes One and Two (Zhongguo Huobi Shi)</a>&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Not an identification guide, this 983 page (!!!!) e-book is a study of Chinese numismatics and economy from the earliest days to the beginning of the Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Peng (also known as Hsin-wei P&#039;eng) was a Chinese banker and collector during the Republic who was removed when the Communists took power, but found work as a professor - until he was executed during the Cultural Revolution. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know it is the only study of its type in English - Francois Thierry&#039;s &quot;Les monnaies de la Chine ancienne&quot; is more recent, but in French (and half the length).</p><p><br /></p><p>The English version of Peng was published in 1993 - a translation of the original Chinese version which dated to the 1950s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, it has been made available as a free download (as a whole or individual chapters) by Western Washington University.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://cedar.wwu.edu/easpress/17/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cedar.wwu.edu/easpress/17/" rel="nofollow">https://cedar.wwu.edu/easpress/17/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Shawn[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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