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This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with “white metal” held China back from financial modernization.
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Jin Xu
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. She lives in Shanghai.
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