Reading List on Monetary Pluralism

= as curated from Chor Pharn’s recommendations)

Context

"a composite genealogy of monetary plurality — from imperial China’s multi-media monetary systems, to China’s role in global bullion flows, to modern monetary hierarchy theory, to contemporary Chinese financial architecture and civilisation-level statecraft."

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Bibliography

1️⃣ Richard von Glahn – Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000–1700 Classic longue-durée history of Chinese monetary governance.

URL: https://books.google.com/books/about/Fountain_of_Fortune.html?id=DNlv4f9tV_AC

2️⃣ Richard von Glahn – “The Origins of Paper Money in China” Key chapter on early monetary innovation.

URL: https://academic.oup.com/book/52333/chapter/421095427

3️⃣ Austin Dean – China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 Situates China inside a global bullion economy.

URL: https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781501752407

4️⃣ Austin Dean – “A Coin for China? The Monetary Standards Debate…” (Modern China, 2018) Excellent article on Qing–Republic monetary debates.

PDF: https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/history_fac_articles/97/

5️⃣ Perry Mehrling – “The Inherent Hierarchy of Money” (2012/2013) Essential for understanding modern monetary hierarchy + offshore dollar system.

PDF: https://docslib.org/doc/8153881/the-inherent-hierarchy-of-money

6️⃣ Zoltan Pozsar – Global Liquidity & Shadow Banking (various notes) Provocative but highly influential analyses of modern liquidity plumbing.

Pozsar & Mehrling lecture/notes archive: http://www.perrymehrling.com/tag/pozsar/

7️⃣ Zhou Xiaochuan – “Managing Multi-Objective Monetary Policy” (2016) One of the clearest articulations of Chinese macro-financial pragmatism.

URL: https://www.imf.org/external/np/speeches/2016/062416.htm

8️⃣ Yi Gang – G20 Commentary & PBOC Speeches (2016+) Insight into China’s incremental, stability-first financial strategy.

Archive example (Chinese): https://www.siis.org.cn/Paper/1726.jhtml

9️⃣ Wang Hui – The Politics of Imagining Asia (2011) For understanding China as a civilisation accustomed to governing complexity.

URL: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674060461

🔟 Wang Hui – China’s Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat, and the Road to Equality Intellectual foundations for non-teleological understandings of Chinese governance.

URL: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2006-china-s-twentieth-century