China

Routes of Money　—　36 chapters · 134 stops

The monetary history of China, read chapter by chapter in painted scenes, with narration available. The first chapter is open to all.

Chapters

1. A memory called cowries　4 stops
2. Money in the shape of tools　4 stops
3. Chu's ant-nose, Chu's gold　3 stops
4. Until the hole became square　3 stops
5. Before unification, there were coins　3 stops
6. Round heaven, square earth　4 stops
7. Light as elm seeds　4 stops
8. The standard called wu zhu　4 stops
9. Complexity as failure　4 stops
10. The coin that outlived the dynasty　4 stops
11. A coin without an era name　4 stops
12. Sending money without carrying it　4 stops
13. The moulds that were distributed　4 stops
14. Coin famine　4 stops
15. Paper becomes money　4 stops
16. A flood of copper coins　3 stops
17. Paper with an expiry　4 stops
18. Money too heavy to carry　3 stops
19. Song coins across the sea　4 stops
20. Paper backed by silver　4 stops
21. Paper turns into gold, he wrote　3 stops
22. The more you issue, the lighter it grows　4 stops
23. Notes that promise no exchange　4 stops
24. The money the market chose　3 stops
25. Taxes turn to silver　3 stops
26. Silver from two oceans　4 stops
27. Money without a face value　4 stops
28. A foreign silver coin becomes the standard　3 stops
29. The silver flows out　4 stops
30. Striking Western-style silver at home　4 stops
31. A silver coin that passes by its face　4 stops
32. The end of the scales　3 stops
33. Leaving silver behind　4 stops
34. Paper becomes mere paper again　4 stops
35. The birth of the renminbi　4 stops
36. Paper money without paper　4 stops