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HKUL Book Talk: Ch’ing Cash

26 May 2017

 

Speakers:   Dr Werner Burger
Moderator:   Dr Florian Knothe
Date:   7 June 2017 (Wednesday)
Time:    6:30 - 8:00 pm
Venue:   Multi-purpose Zone, 3/F Main Library, The University of Hong Kong
Language:   English

About the Speaker
Dr. Burger is a sinologist and world expert on Qing dynasty coins. He is German born, wrote his dissertation on Chinese numismatics at Munich University, and moved to Hong Kong some 50 years ago to do research and collect examples of minted coins from the Qing dynasty.

About the Book
Ch’ing Cash is his second large publication on Qing coins that lists complete production registers for all the existing mints, analyses the annual output of coins, and, thereby, measures the economic strength of the empire.

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