Jin Xu is senior editor and chief financial commentator at the Financial Times Chinese. She has been a visiting fellow at the University of Tokyo and a Caijing Fellow at Peking University.
“Makes a good case for how monetary choices can have wider
political implications...Its message that China's development has
been hampered by weak rule of law and a lack of accountability
could not be timelier.”—Matthew Partridge, Money Week
"Empire of Silver is superbly written and a great joy to read.
Ingeniously blending literary evidence from materials as diverse as
Chinese classical novels with serious academic research, the book
gives extraordinary theoretical and historical insights on big
questions about politics, money, finance, and the Great Divergence.
It is a wonderful book for understanding one thousand years of
Chinese monetary history."--Debin Ma, Hitotsubashi University,
Tokyo, Japan
"Empire of Silver is a fascinating, in-depth and scholarly work. It
traces China's obsession with the precious metal for better and for
worse over the centuries. Particularly interesting is the
relationship between silver and the decline of the Qing dynasty in
the 19th century - a passage of history that maintains crucial
relevance to the China of today."--James Kynge, author of China
Shakes the World
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