Marco Polo Was in China : New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues


Hans Ulrich. Vogel
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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Leiden : : BRILL, , 2012.
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1 online resource (675 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; Preface from Mark Elvin; Préface de Philippe Ménard; Preface from the Author; Acknowledgments; Transliteration and Conventions; Chapter One Introduction; 1. Structure and Contents of this Book; 2. Approaches and Methods; 3. Cons and Pros for Marco Polo's Stay in China; 3.1. Authorship of the Book; 3.2. Complexities of Manuscript Transmission; 3.3. Nature, Style, Intentions and Receptions of the Book; 3.4. Itinerary and Data; 3.5. Persian Rendering of Chinese Place Names; 3.6. Aspects of Chinese and Mongol Civilization and Culture. - 1. Marco Polo on Salt Production in Yunnan (1275-1291)2. Marco Polo on Salt Currencies in Tebet and Caindu (1275-1291); 3. Chinese Sources on Salt Currencies (Late Eighth to Mid-Twentieth Centuries); 3.1. Nanzhao Kingdom (Late Eighth Century); 3.2. Yuan Period (Early Fourteenth Century); 3.3. Ming Period (Mid-Fifteenth Century); 3.4. Qing Period (Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries); 3.5. Republican Period (Mid-1930s); 3.6. People's Republic of China (1950s); 4. Salt Forms Produced by Yunnan Saltworks (Early Eighteenth Century); 4.1. Dry-boiled Salt Forms. - 3.7. "Latins" at Khubilai's Court3.8. Participation in the Xiangyang Siege; 3.9. Governorship in Yangzhou; 3.10. Missions of the Polos; 3.11. The Polos and Chinese Sources; 3.12. Return from China; 3.13. Golden Tablets of Authority; Chapter Two Paper Money in Yuan China; 1. Marco Polo on Yuan Paper Money (1275-1291); 2. Other Western, Persian and Arabic Mediaeval Authors on Yuan Paper Money; 3. The Short-lived Issue of Yuan-style Paper Money in Persia in 1294; 4. Chinese Sources on Paper Money during the Yuan Period (1271-1368); 4.1. Aspects of Production; 4.2. Aspects of Circulation. - 4.2. Salt Forms Made by Hand or Moulds5. Salt Currencies: Comparing Marco Polo's Perceptions and Chinese Sources; 5.1. Weight of Salt Currencies; 5.2. Value of Salt Currencies; 5.3. Salt Prices in Caindu and Other Regions of China; 5.4. Circulation and Monetary Functions of Salt Currencies; 5.5. Salt Monies, Governments and Markets; Chapter Five Production, Revenue and Trade of Salt in Changlu and Lianghuai; 1. Marco Polo on Salt Production Techniques in Changlu; 2. Marco Polo on the Salt Production and Distribution Zone of Lianghuai; 3. Did Marco Polo Hold an Office in Yangzhou?. - 5. Yuan Paper Money: Comparing Marco Polo's Account and Chinese SourcesChapter Three Cowry Monies Circulating in Yunnan and Southeast Asia; 1. Marco Polo on Cowry Currencies (1275-1291); 2. Chinese Sources on Yunnan Cowry Currencies during the Yuan Period (1271-1368); 2.1. Exchange Rates; 2.2. Denominations; 2.3. Cowry Imports; 2.4. Cowry Currency in Private Transactions; 2.5. Cowry Money in Public Revenue and Finance; 3. Yunnan Cowry Currencies: Comparing Marco Polo's Account and Chinese Sources; Chapter Four Salt Production and Salt Monies in Yunnan and Tebet. - Chapter Six Tax Revenue of Hangzhou and its Territory. - In Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel undertakes a thorough study of Yuan currencies, salts and revenues, by comparing Marco Polo manuscripts with Chinese sources and thus offering new evidence for the Venetian's stay in Khubilai Khan's empire.
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