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Peng Xinwei
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<h2 id="life">Life</h2> <p>Peng was born in Yantian, Xixiang, <a href="/facts/Jiangxi/mFb3o7r4">Jiangxi</a> province, in 1907. After studying in Japan, he became a banker in Shanghai. His approach to economic history was influenced by the work of <a href="/facts/Carl_Menger/mwyWv30k">Carl Menger</a> and <a href="/facts/Ludwig_von_Mises/fSfvJDdW">Ludwig von Mises</a>. Peng also taught at <a href="/facts/Fudan_University/hUdkzJBg">Fudan University</a> in Shanghai. He died in 1967.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="a-monetary-history-of-china"><i>A Monetary History of China</i></h2> <p>This pioneering work is acclaimed internationally. </p><p>"It is a classic in the field of Chinese monetary history and numismatics" – Hans Ulrich Vogel, University of Tuebingen.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>"His monumental two-volume work, <i>A Monetary History of China</i>, is much more than a history of money. It is a comprehensive history of Chinese economic thought." – William N. Goetzmann<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <ul><li>1954 "中国货币史" <i>Zhongguo huobi shi</i> (Qunlian publishing house 群联出版社)</li> <li>1958 "中国货币史" <i>Zhongguo huobi shi</i> (Shanghai Renmin publishing house 上海人民出版社)</li> <li>1965 "中国货币史" <i>Zhongguo huobi shi</i> (Shanghai Renmin publishing house 上海人民出版社)</li> <li>1994 <i>A Monetary History of China</i> (English translation by Edward H. Kaplan)</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li>Peng Xinwei on Chinese Wikipedia (in Chinese)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Peng Xinwei, A Monetary History of China (Zhongguo huobi shi), translated by Edward H. Kaplan (Bellingham, Washington: Western Washington University (East Asian Research Aids and Translations), 1994), Introduction. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Vogel, Hans Ulrich (1997). "Review of A Monetary History of China (Zhonqguo huobi shi)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 56 (4): 1073–1075. doi:10.2307/2658318. ISSN 0021-9118. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2658318" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2658318</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Goetzmann, in Money Changes Everything: how finance made everything possible (Princeton University Press, 2017), p.159. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>