The China question : can the rise of the Middle Kingdom be accommodated? / Benjamin Cohen -- China and the International Monetary Fund : neglected historical roots and continuities / Eric Helleiner and Bessma Momani -- The politics of foreign reserve accumulation in China / David Steinberg --...

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining...