Guns and Currency (two Volumes) (once Upon a Time in China Series)

About This Novel

"Once Upon a Time in China" is a series of works by Zhao Botian that retells the modern history of China from the perspective of the transformation of modernity. It consists of three volumes and four volumes, namely: "Guns and Currency (two volumes)" (Once Upon a Time in China Series), "Moss in the Moon: A Short History of the Life of Southern Literati in the 20th Century", and "Guns and Currency: The Rise and Fall of Financiers in the Republic of China". The author has been working hard for ten years to write the memory of a country in public oblivion. The "China Past" series is his positive writing of modern revolution and cultural themes. It tells the stories of the best souls in that changing era: revolutionaries, politicians, intellectuals, scholars, businessmen, Jianghu, grassroots and working class. "Guns and Money: The Rise and Fall of Financiers in the Republic of China" is a Republic of China version of "The Biography of Money". This book starts from the relationship between politics and business, and combs through the vast sea of modern Chinese financial historical materials and bankers' diaries, letters, and correspondence. Focusing on Zhang Jiayao, Chen Guangfu, Li Ming, Qian Xinzhi, Wu Dingchang and other financial elites from the north and south who were involved in the whirlpool of money politics, it tells the story of industrialists and bankers that began during the Great Revolution and ended in 1949. This is also the story of a generation that failed in its ambition amid the opposition, dependence, conflict, and entanglement between capital and power. After the rapid changes, the world changed secretly, and a new era began: war, the collapse of the old system and the final liberation. The grand historical knowledge and the melancholy and solid narrative aesthetics directly point to the world and people's hearts behind the great era. The story of money more than half a century ago has lessons for China today.

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