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A Short History of Chinese Numismatics in European Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2014

Helen Wang 汪海嵐*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Coins and Medals, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, UK, hwang@britishmuseum.org

Abstract

This paper is a preliminary attempt at a history of the western world's interest in Chinese currency and numismatics. It focuses on Western language publications of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and pays particular attention to the backgrounds of the authors of those publications on the grounds that they were the first people to shape the field in Europe and the USA.

西方如何開始了解中國的貨幣和中國的錢幣學? 本文對此問題做出初步研究 。 作者着重介紹在歐洲 、 美國十八世紀和十九世紀出版的書和文獻,并特別注意這些出版物的作者的背景,因爲西方對中國貨幣和中國錢幣學的知識和了解是由它們決定的 。

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72. It was reissued by Krause Publications, Inc., Iola, Wisconsin, in 1965, with a new introduction providing helpful information for collectors, written by Virgil Hancock of Bellaire, Texas.

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80. These include Thierry, F., Monnaies chinoises I: L'antiquité préimpériale (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1997)Google Scholar; Monnaies chinoises II: des Qin aux Cinq Dynasties (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2003)Google Scholar.

81. The project title is “Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia 1600–1900”; see http://www.monieseastasia.uni-tuebingen.de/overview.html.

82. Hartill, D., Cast Chinese Coins. A Historical Catalogue (Victoria BC: Trafford Publishing, 2005)Google Scholar.

83. For two excellent examples, see Cribb's, JoeThe Sino-Kharoshthi coins of Khotan–their attribution and relevance to Kushan chronology (Part 1),” Numismatic Chronicle 144 (1984), 128–52Google Scholar; and (Part 2), Numismatic Chronicle, 145 (1985), 136–49Google Scholar; and Thierry's, François Amulettes de Chine (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 2008)Google Scholar.

84. Hong Zun (1120–74), Song dynasty numismatist.

85. Lyce Jankowski has made this the subject of her M.A. and Ph.D.: L'age d'or de la numismatique chinoise: l'exemple du Guquanhui de Li Zuoxian” (M.A. thesis, Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2006 Google Scholar; this was also the title of the paper she presented at the International Numismatic Congress, Glasgow, 31 August–4 September 2009); Les cercles de collectionneurs et de numismates dans la région de Pékin durant la première moitié du XIXe siècle: échanges des monnaies anciennes, partage des idées et renouveau des études numismatiques” (title of Ph.D. thesis, Université Paris Sorbonne, in progress)Google Scholar.

86. This was the predecessor of the National Library of China.

87. The manuscript and the diary Lu Xun kept during his research on coins have been published as Yanzhi, Tu 屠燕治, ed., Lu Xun Quanzhi shougao tushi 魯迅泉志手稿圖釋 (Hong Kong: Zhongguo wenhua yishu, 2011)Google Scholar, not seen, but reported in Zhang Le 張樂, “Lu Xun Quanzhi shougao chuban zhanshi Lu Xun qianbi yanjiu gongxian” 魯迅泉志手稿出版展示魯迅錢幣研究貢獻, on http://www.zj.xinhuanet.com/news-center/2011-09/30/content_23817919.htm (accessed 27.02.2012).

88. Zhongguo quanbi xueshe lihui jilu 中國泉幣學社例會紀錄 (Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 1993)Google Scholar. As it is difficult to find this information in a compact form elsewhere, I have compiled a list of all the people who attended at least one of the Society's meetings (as recorded in the Minutes): Bao Ju'ang 鮑駒昂, Bao Weimin 包偉民, J. R. Bossuet, Cai Jixiang 蔡季襄, Chen Liangsheng 陳亮聲, Chen Nanqin 陳南琴, Chen Rentao 陳仁濤, Chen Rongkang 陳榮康, Chen Xundu 陳洵都, Chen Zhichuan 陳志川, Cheng Yuncen 程雲岑, Cheng Zongjin 程宗進, Dai Baoting 戴葆庭, Dai Baoxiang 戴葆湘, Dai Zhijun 戴志鈞, Ding Fubao 丁福保, Dong Yongquan 董永權, Du Hannan 杜漢南, Du Jiamao 杜家懋, Fang Liang 房良 (and his new wife), Fang Zhongdao 房中道, F. A. Frisk, Gu Bingyuan 顧炳元 (and his wife), Gu Jingyan 顧景炎, Guo Baoshan 郭保善, Guo Zhifang 郭植芳, Hu Juyu 胡聚玉, Hu Rangquan 胡讓泉, Hua Runquan 華潤泉, Jiang Baoli 蔣保釐, Jin Congyi 金從怡, Jin Wuzhou 金武周, Kan En 闞恩, Kang Jiwen 康際文, Kang Jiwu 康際武, Eduard Kann, Kun Zhong 昆仲, Li Qingyu 李慶裕, Li Shuying 李樹英, Li Yunqing 李韻清, Liu Nianren 劉念仁, Liu Siyuan 劉思源, Lü Chongxi 呂崇禧, Lu Xinbu 魯心卜, Luo Bozhao 羅伯昭, Mao Dingcheng 毛鼎丞, Louis Piendivalla, Ping Yulin 平玉麟, A. B. Pogrebetzky-Menezes (also known as Po), Qian Yajie 錢亞傑, Qiao Xin 喬梓, Qin Kangxiang 秦康祥, Qin Ziwei 秦子幃, Mr. Robert, Shen Yongrui 沈永瑞, Shen Zicha 沈子槎, Shi Xiaoxian 施孝先, Song Xiaopo 宋小坡, Tang Dihua 唐棣華, Tao Tingyao 陶庭耀 (also known as Tao Juyin 陶菊隱), Tao Xinru 陶心如, Wang Hongyuan 王鴻源, Wang Hongyuan 王宏元, Wang Xiamin 王俠民, Wang Jianxun 王建訓, Wang Jianyu 王健與, Wang Junfu 王君復, Wang Junlin 王俊林, Wang Shouqian 王守謙, Wang Shuhe 王叔和, Wang Yimin 王逸民, Wang Yinjia 王蔭嘉,Weng Cangfu 翁滄父, Wu Guangyuan 吳廣源, Wu Shijin 吳詩錦, Xi Xianwei 席先偉, Xu Aifang 徐愛芳, Xu Jiliang 徐季良, Xu Lingyun 徐淩雲, Xu Xiaohe 許小鶴, Xue Fuzhong 薛福中, Yang Chengqi 楊成麒, Yang Dianzhang 楊典章, Yang Tingkang 楊廷康, Yi Jincen 伊近岑, Yi Yuanzhao 伊遠昭, Yu Chengzhi 俞誠之, Yu Zanyi 俞簪一, Zhang Jiliang 張季量, Zhang Jiongbo 張絅伯, Zhang Jiuru 張九如, Zhang Laiyuan 張賚源, Zhang Xinchen 張新陳, Zhang Wenbao 張文寳, Zhang Weiyu 張渭漁 (also known as Zhang Huang 張璜), Zhang Xinyu 張欣漁, Zhang Yicheng 張翼成, Zhang Ziyuan 張子遠, Zhao Quanzhi 趙權之, Zheng Jiaxiang 鄭家相, Zhou Heqing 周禾慶, Zhu Bingjun 朱秉鈞, Zhu Wenshu 諸文叔, Zhu Zhaoxian 朱兆賢, Zhuge Yunsheng 諸葛韻笙.

89. Also known as Ding Zhonghu 丁仲祜 / Ding Zhonggu 丁仲估.

90. Also known as Zhurenweng 主人翁.

91. Ma Dingxiang 馬定祥 (Treasurer) (1916–91) was one of the youngest of the founding members of the Society. Much of his own work was lost or damaged during the Cultural Revolution, but he managed to hold on to many documents of the China Numismatic Society, such as the Minutes Book.

92. Also known as Zhuge Yuansheng 諸葛源生.

93. Also known as Zhang Guoyuan 張果園.

94. Also known as Zheng Jiaxiang 鄭葭湘.

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