{"product_id":"empire-of-silver-9780300250046","title":"Empire of Silver","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thousand-year history of how China’s obsession with silver influenced the country’s financial well-being, global standing, and political stability\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eMoney Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Silver \u003c\/i\u003eis 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\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Silver \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eChina Shakes the World \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401560072535,"sku":"9780300250046","price":21.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300250046.jpg?v=1730477800","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empire-of-silver-9780300250046","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}