The Splendor of Bianjing: A Song Dynasty Tale

“I’m not trying to change history. I want to make history better.”

“A copper coin from Bianjing can be spent at a market in the Liao Kingdom, collected in a tent in Western Xia, and worshipped at a shrine in Japan.”

“It carries no written propaganda and makes no threats of force, yet no one can do without it. That is the power of culture.”