Sun Zhan, a modern silver dollar collector, traveled to Shanghai in 1900 and entered the game as a nine-year-old boy carrying the memories of future generations. In the Shili Foreign Market on the banks of the Huangpu River, he used silver dollar identification as a blade to deal with the forces of the concession, the Green Gang, and the revolutionary tide. He grew from a street child laborer to a "silver dollar trader" spanning the three worlds of finance, politics, and military. He used coins that carried history to pry off the shackles of the old era and forge the foundation of the new world.
