Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700 by Richard von Glahn

Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700

Richard von Glahn

408 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity’s diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon but rather as an embodiment of greed and lust, a maleficent demo...

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